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Choose your team wisely - Marketing Amazon Web Services Employee Review

1.0
Aug 6, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

- A lot of opportunities to move around in roles, good for future move - Work from home almost 100% - Some teams are less political and better work life balance (Technical/Solution Architects, Public Sector, Kindle, Twitch, Advertising)

Cons

- Toxic environment, leaders that has HR and exit interview complaint cases remains in their positions and get promoted. - HR function is weak. If there are any HR complaint cases, leaders often do not get investigated. - A mix of good and bad environment depends on which team you join. Avoid joining the commercial sales and marketing teams in APJ as they are the most toxic teams. A number of political and toxic leaders lead those teams. - People will have to be put on review process due to a yearly goal of sending 10% of headcount for job performance review, leaders often do this unfairly, they would put employees they have bias against or do not like. This is also highly dependent on direct manager. The employee will not be notified. - Insurance and benefit package is not competitive as FAANG companies - No insurance for spouse and children ( you will have to top up) - Regardless of seniority and flight hours, flight is economy cabin or premium economy if you have flown enough in the company. No business class - Frugality (small budget) in team bonding budget or welfare. Cheap drinks and snacks (White bread and Kong guan biscuits) in the pantry.

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5.0
Jun 8, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great team when you have a manager and full team that works well and collaborates well. Stock is great. And you know when youre doing well, the pay increase is roughly the same as everyone else.

Cons

Low perks compared to other FAANG companies and most teams have high turn over

3.0
Jun 21, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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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