employer cover photo
employer logo
employer logo

Amazon Web Services

Part of Amazon

Is this your company?

Cheapest American company I have ever come across - Cloud Support Engineer II Amazon Web Services Employee Review

1.0
Jun 11, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

May be just the subsidised health insurance.

Cons

It has to be the cheapest American company I have ever worked for in Australia. They have been slowly clawing back the benefits that they gave to their employees. To begin with almost all the major companies have some sort of bonus that is paid every year. AWS just lures people with joining bonus that gets paid for just initial 2 years. More over the Support Center is more of a glorified call center. Micro-management is rife and you are never made to feel like you are a part of the company. They talk about 16 leadership principles, but it is all hypocrite. Its just for front line engineers while the upper management use it as an excuse to make support engineers over work. Work life balance is a big joke.

Explore other reviews about Amazon Web Services

5.0
Jun 22, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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
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.

See reviews by: Helpful|Rating|Date|All