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Good pay, terrible job - Software Development Engineer Amazon Web Services Employee Review

3.0
12 Feb 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Everyone is very smart and a high performer. The money is very good. You can work at a larger scale than anywhere else in the world. If you want to put in extra hours and a lot of extra work, you can advance quickly. You have more input over what you work on than at other companies. You get name recognition on your resume. Lots of diversity and respect for diversity, but almost no DEI-related BS.

Cons

Long hours are common. Pressure to perform is very high, but criteria for success are often fuzzy and sometimes clarified only after. Many legacy systems means a lot of maintenance of the worst and most tedious kind. Everyone has to be on call, and I was paged often during every shift. There is always a fire to put out and never a moment to breathe. So much doc writing and server-type maintenance meant I barely got to code.

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5.0
22 June 2026
Anonymous employee
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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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