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Don’t come - Sr. Software Engineer Amazon Web Services Employee Review

1.0
30 Nov 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The pay is good. Peers are very strong in tech and judgement.

Cons

AJ is a terrible leader. Made decision with no supporting data. Flip-flop, one day he said we would never go back to 5-day office work, people moved out of town, later he said people had to come back. For those who moved out, suck yourself. In 2023-2024 compensation review, L6+ didn’t get any raise because Amazon did too good. That’s a nice way to say thanks for working hard. I’m still working here because I’m still figuring out where to go next. I will. For working part, it’s damn hard to make decisions. Lots of strong people here. Nobody wants to own a thing, but everybody wants to have their say.

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5.0
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Pros

Strong engineering culture, competitive pay, great learning opportunities, and excellent internal mobility across teams.

Cons

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3.0
21 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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