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Terrible Work Life Balance and Management Style - Strategic Customer Engagement Amazon Web Services Employee Review

1.0
Jul 17, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Great total comp and opportunities to work on the top strategic deals out there (deal sizes ranges between $100M to $1B in total contract value).

Cons

Terrible management. Very top down driven. Drives a lot of distrust internally within SCE and also toxic relationships with other organization stakeholders. Long long long hours and constant push to do extra side projects despite already overworked.

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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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