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Disconnected Leadership Affects Attrition - Executive Assistant Amazon Web Services Employee Review

2.0
16 Feb 2023
Recommend
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Pros

If part of a professionally HEALTHY branch of the organization (not my experience but those of my peers): There are ample opportunities for growth and advancement. Leaders and mentors provide direction and advice for career paths. Opportunity to create robust workflow with additional project management and team collaboration Leadership principles are incorporated into daily work/life Mechanisms created to streamline project management and communication. Documentation created to incorporate team feedback, with full visibility into forward thinking goals and roadmaps. Thorough and inclusive review process.

Cons

If part of a professionally UNHEALTHY branch of the organization (my personal experience, upon which my ratings are based): Complete disregard for work/life balance, as leadership only focuses on outward facing customers and the end product. When I addressed a potential solution for improving organization morale, the response I received was "If they want to go, they go. That can't be my problem. I don't have time for this and we'll find somebody else". Lack of transparent communication surrounding projects and milestones. Abrupt changing of direction and priorities, without considering lack of employee resources or time for completion. Leadership's lack of trust in their directs and their teams, causing high levels of micromanagement and 6 plus hours of meetings per day, not allowing for actual work production. Leadership insulting, shaming and berating upper management and their teams in a public forum, including in the presence of senior VPs.

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5.0
26 June 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Awesome team - great culture. Very customer focused.

Cons

It's not a great fit for folks who are not aligned to the culture.

3.0
21 June 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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