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Challenging work and slightly lack of work life balance - Sr. SDE Amazon Web Services Employee Review

3.0
Mar 29, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Large scale distributed system public cloud environment Interesting problems to resolve

Cons

Operation burden is too high and management not prioritizes fix operational issue v,s, new feature deliveries

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
Jun 21, 2026
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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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