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Good Values - weakly held - Software Development Manager Amazon Web Services Employee Review

3.0
May 26, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

- I still cite and use the Amazon Values today having left many months ago - approvals.amazon,com is an amazing, emotion-free tool to escalate cross team conflits and priority issues that other companies address through politics and stress and emotion

Cons

- Weak support from HR and Recruiting - lots of rotating, over-worked hiring and management partners, making hiring - The 2 new values are not observed at all in any way, - L5 centralized hiring funnel is stupid and results in mad scramble from hiring managers to claim candidates that might not be interested in their domain - Chime sucks, glad they got rid of it

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5.0
Jun 22, 2026
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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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