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Amazon Web Services

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Great place to work for young, growth minded individuals - Software Development Engineer II Amazon Web Services Employee Review

5.0
Apr 6, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

People you'll work with are generally very talented and competent. They like what they do, care about other engineers, and will do all they can to mentor and share information. Tech is difficult and this is a great foundation for best practices. Lessons you learn will stick with you for entire career. Company is very solid and your RSUs will be good for long-term growth (won't tank like Meta lol)

Cons

A few coworkers have figured out how to game the system and do the bare minimum. Leadership goals are always overly ambitious, but that does not translate to additional stress if you're working on internal-facing products with flexible deadlines. Conversely, strict deadlines can be very stressful. Can still grow career, pay, and earn high ratings if you work hard and scale impact.

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Pros

Working with latest and greatest technology

Cons

Work life balance is challenging

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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