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Work Culture at AWS is really bad - Software Development Engineer II Amazon Web Services Employee Review

1.0
Dec 9, 2024
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Pros

Good compensation, honestly that is it!

Cons

A lot of corporate politics and no value for employees or teams. The culture among teammates is toxic, everyone is trying to step over each other's work, unnecessarily delaying feature launch by means of PR comments, and unnecessary changes just to portray the poor performance of the feature owner. I am a victim of racism and biasing, I reported but no actions were taken. In fact, at Amazon, every manager needs to cut off 1 person from their team every year in the name of talent refresh. My manager couldn't cut anyone from the existing teammates as they were important to her, so she decided to do a workaround, she hired me just to fire me after 5 months. She deliberately evaluated my performance wrong on papers to present that as the reason for termination. No actions were taken after reporting the actual evaluation and how she mistreated me with these evaluations.

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5.0
Jun 22, 2026
Anonymous employee
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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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