employer cover photo
employer logo
employer logo

Amazon Web Services

Part of Amazon

Is this your company?

High performing environment that has been corrupted some by Day 2 - Solutions Architect (Manager) Amazon Web Services Employee Review

4.0
27 Oct 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

1) These are some of the most talented folks you will ever work with 2) Depending on the role you can have some nice flexibility 3) We compensate better than your average bear 4) Having this on your resume is like nitrous in your tank 5) You have a lot of opportunities to Learn & Be Curious

Cons

1) Far more bureaucratic than one would suspect 2) In an effort to always raise the bar, humanity and empathy can be lost 3) Leadership can be immune to an understanding of what is being asked of the folks doing the work 4) Easy to work yourself to death and to get to a point where you burnout 5) The quality of leadership is spotty. Some leaders get it while others were promoted to a level of incompetence/leadership is an afterthought 6) Every decision seeming requires a doc... and every doc requires multiple doc reads. Your job can easily go from Are Right, A Lot to that of a writer trying to get your book published and working with a cranky editor

Explore other reviews about Amazon Web Services

5.0
22 June 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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.

See reviews by: Helpful|Rating|Date|All