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A long way to go to be Earths Best Employer - Solutions Architect Amazon Web Services Employee Review

3.0
Jun 30, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

You are surrounded by driven and knowledgeable people in the industry within just about every business vertical and technology niche. For most people, employment here represents a career launching pad.

Cons

I was one of the most tenured people in my whole org after 3 years. I had 7 managers in that time who sometimes had up to 30 direct reports. You need to be self driven to progress as even as in early career, you will get no mentorship you don't fight for and your calendar will be filled by other people and teams if you don't relentlessly prioritize.

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5.0
Jun 22, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Strong engineering culture, competitive pay, great learning opportunities, and excellent internal mobility across teams.

Cons

Work-life balance can be tough, on-call rotations are demanding, and the pace is fast with high expectations.

3.0
Jun 21, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Ambitious projects if you're in the right team. Typically great team-mates. Don't believe the memes, the ppl are not back stabbing jerks but are overall genuinely nice. Not constrained by budgets when building cool things. Tools while sometimes clunky are powerful.

Cons

Schizophrenic lack of focus, entire teams get split, merged and upended multiple times a quarter. Some product managers are disconnected from reality. It didn't use to be the case, the PM-Ts were previously top notch. You're pushed to vibe code everything. Established products with loyal customers are getting neglected. Newer VP level leaders don't seem to know what they are doing. Veteran OG VP level leaders are either leaving in droves or seem stressed or checked out.

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