Amazon Web Services Systems Development Engineer reviews

The way the teams are setup, you're ranked either in the top 50% or bottom. Raising the bar is a huge part of the game here. Instead of being happy for your teammates overworking to achieve their projects, you must be worried if you don't work on something cool as them, you can be considered least effective. The internal tooling is the worst and you'll spend most of your career debugging internal crap vs using the latest tech. So much technical debt on teams, it can be a nightmare.

Average tenure here is short, and with AWS constantly growing, there are some growing pains related to orgs and teams losing generational knowledge regarding their services. As a new employee there is lots of AWS specific knowledge to learn that can often be overwhelming. Expect to be somewhat clueless for the first six months.