4.0
20 Feb 2021
Current employee, more than 8 years
Seattle, WA
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
AWS is a good place to get experience working on large systems. Standards for scalability and availability are high. Scope is large and it’s easy to find interesting technical challenges if you’re willing to change teams.
Cons
AWS generally doesn’t care about CX quality or creating products that are a joy to use — if it scales, it ships. They’ll also routinely sacrifice operational posture to make deadlines. Devops culture can make this tendency a real pain as you drown in ops while clueless PMs keep pestering weak SDMs for new features ...