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Great place to work for - Software Development Engineer II Amazon Web Services Employee Review

4.0
Mar 27, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

- Interesting Problems - Interesting People - Different interesting avenues to explore

Cons

- Top down decision can feel like engineers are after-thought and not involved in decision making or don't have a voice - Politics can play a role, although not so much that it's unbearable - Things change fast - Long hours, but you are excited to do them? Although, manager try to discourage this. But things move so fast, that it can feel like falling behind and you have to compensate

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5.0
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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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