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Toxic to Women who aren't in Marketing or HR - Sales Amazon Web Services Employee Review

2.0
Apr 20, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits, good pay (though the expectation is you work 18 hours a day), some teams have good managers and "walk the talk", great technology, stock's on the rise.

Cons

macho culture, women in non-traditional roles are constantly undermined and gaslighted and no one stands up for them even when it happens in group situations, asking for help to stop harassment results in retaliation: if there are witnesses, HR will refuse to speak to them, managers play favourites and manipulate sales data to skew perception of performance, culture is unhealthily US-centric, it's not uncommon for there to be 50+ person non-technical teams with few or no women, lots of sales teams have one "token" woman hired in at a junior-level to the men expected to develop leads for them, illegal practices like "secret probation" are common, "anonymous" daily surveys are not anonymous, most managers now are white males hired in from companies where the culture is completely the opposite of what AWS aspires to have, women in top leadership have recently been hired but from outside the company rather than promoted from inside and we worry they have little agency or visibility to change things for the women below them and focus instead on "getting little girls interested in STEM "

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5.0
Jun 22, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Strong engineering culture, competitive pay, great learning opportunities, and excellent internal mobility across teams.

Cons

Work-life balance can be tough, on-call rotations are demanding, and the pace is fast with high expectations.

3.0
Jun 21, 2026
Recommend
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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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