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Amazon Web Services reviews

3.6

63% would recommend to a friend

(13,975 total reviews)
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52% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Amazon Web Services has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 13,975 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Amazon Web Services employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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14K reviews
3.0
Aug 30, 2022

Total Comp

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Total Comp of AWS for SDEs pretty much aligned with their competitors.

Cons

Work Life Balance is concerning

3.0
Aug 30, 2022

Fine...

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Quarterly promotion cycles that help you move forward.

Cons

Compensation structure is heavily stock based and doesn't keep par with the industry. You work enough hours where your 'hourly' rate becomes very low

4.0
Aug 30, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Good company which will help boost your CV - Excellent for networking - Top performing cloud provider with new services

Cons

- slow promo process , takes at least 2 years. Also, have to write 5 page promo doc with 6 stakeholders on why you should and shouldn’t get promoted, have 2 x projects - lower paying compared to partner’s

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