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It's a circus right now - Anonymous employee Amazon Web Services Employee Review

1.0
23 Mar 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Money - Co-Workers are super talented - Products are interesting

Cons

- Leaders are dishonest and hypocritical. The "leadership principles" apparently don't apply to the S-Team - Getting promoted is difficult. I get nothing but positive feedback, outperform others at my level, but that's not enough. you need what is essentially a thesis defense and all the burden is on you. - I was hired as a remote worker, received the highest evaluation rating possible in my performance review, but am being forced back into office just to dial into meetings bc my team is distributed. - Multiple members of my team have had to go on medical leave due to being overworked

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5.0
22 June 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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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
21 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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