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Amazon Web Services

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Strong culture decline, unhealthy pressure on everyone due to crazy KPIs - Senior DevOps Engineer Amazon Web Services Employee Review

2.0
20 Nov 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Interesting tasks dealing with cutting edge technology, abundance of learning opportunities, very competent colleagues hand selected with a thorough interview process

Cons

Always propagating a day one start up culture but these times are definitely over, no work-life balance, many KPI’s don’t make much sense and are not under your control (for example, a consultant’s booking rate or forecasting your utilization for the next month), strict top down management, no one is listening to the people in the field, lower management does not have any leeway when it comes to performance evaluation, they don’t have a budget for team building, very high turnover rate ( on avg staff leaves after three years), poor career opportunities

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5.0
27 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great job. I’ve learned so much it is just hard with 5 day rto

Cons

The 5 day RTO mandate

3.0
1 July 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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