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Depends a lot on the Organisation - Software Development Engineer II Amazon Web Services Employee Review

4.0
May 17, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

I had the chance to rotate between teams within EC2 and all of the engineers were incredibly clever and helpful Certain organisations with a high bar do things very well. Not perfectly, but nothing is. It's a great place to learn how to the fundamentals at a high bar

Cons

If the org you end up joining isn't a direct profit centre for the company, or they're currently building something that isn't making money, expect to be worked to your bones until they finally see their investment pay off.

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5.0
Jun 21, 2026
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Pros

Working with latest and greatest technology

Cons

Work life balance is challenging

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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