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Amazon Web Services

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Learn all the time and stressed all the time - Senior Software Engineer Amazon Web Services Employee Review

3.0
24 Apr 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Learn all the time especially how to maintain services at scale.

Cons

stressed all the time from deadlines, oncall, being always compared with your peers. Also low comp compared with US.

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5.0
22 June 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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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
1 July 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Strong place to be early in your career as it provides valuable training and the brand recognition can create strong future opportunities. - Is great if you’re interested in what you’re doing/selling

Cons

- 5 days in office is not great for work/life balance - If your manager doesn’t like you, good luck! - 401k match is lower than most companies - Base salary compensation is weak compared to other big tech - Leveling/career progression is near impossible due to reorgs leading to a promotion “freeze” - Role can evolve over time in ways that may not align with original job expectations

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