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Fantastic company, petty people - AWS Cloud Architect Amazon Web Services Employee Review

1.0
27 Jan 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great benefits and compensation Good company culture and knowledge enablement Challenging work environment

Cons

Anonymous complaints can tank your career No chance to respond when you're targeted Managers who aren't willing to stand up for new hires Long story short, was asked to assist with major initiatives outside my job role when I joined, manager at the time asked me to help out as shorthanded. Fast forward 3 months, helping with the project got me pegged as "unwilling to assist" with my core job role by some account managers I had to turn down due to lack of bandwidth, and my then manager had taken on new responsibilities, leaving me to fend for myself. Cherry on the cake was complaints raised to regional HR on the week when I was supposed to be confirmed in my role, leading to PIP being initiated against me, eventually dragging on and leading to my being asked to leave. At no point was any complaints raised to me or my manager before then, and no one would even tell me who had issues with my work, all the while I was receiving positive feedback from the customer and other team I worked with, and regularly working 10-12 hour days to prepare for tasks that technically weren't in my job scope. So yeah, great company, petty people if you're unlucky.

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5.0
8 June 2026
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Pros

Great team when you have a manager and full team that works well and collaborates well. Stock is great. And you know when youre doing well, the pay increase is roughly the same as everyone else.

Cons

Low perks compared to other FAANG companies and most teams have high turn over

3.0
15 June 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Unmatched Scale: You get to work on systems that handle millions of requests per second. The technical challenges are genuinely fascinating and great for your career. Smart Colleagues: You are surrounded by incredibly sharp engineers. You will learn more here in one year than in three years at most other companies.

Cons

Work-Life Balance (WLB): Highly dependent on your team, but generally poor. On-call rotations can be brutal, and there is a constant pressure to deliver more, faster. Burnout Culture: The "Day 1" mentality means things move fast, but it also leads to high turnover. The stack-ranking and PIP (Performance Improvement Plan) culture creates unnecessary anxiety.

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