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Horrendous return to office and return to hub policy - Software Engineer II Amazon Web Services Employee Review

1.0
Aug 12, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

My team is good. Manager is cool. Projects are pretty interesting.

Cons

Amazon S-team is pure garbage. Force "voluntary resignation" to avoid paying for severance if people don't relocate (across states). Now managers have to drop disappointment bombs and "encourage" people to come or relocate. This is getting very toxic

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Pros

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Cons

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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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