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Amazon Web Services reviews

3.6

62% would recommend to a friend

(13,977 total reviews)
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Matt Garman

52% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Amazon Web Services has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 13,977 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Amazon Web Services employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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14K reviews
1.0
Apr 4, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

One of the reasons why I've enjoyed working at Amazon is that you get to meet all types of people from around the world and learn about various cultures. Another reason is the constantly changing environment.

Cons

One of the most toxic and consistent problems I've found working at AWS, is that the management here is non-existent. They no longer manage people, but manages meetings all day. Communication is few and far between, a team will fix a bug but breaks the entire system forcing teams globally to suffer for weeks before a fix is pushed. AWS management does believe in transparency in the slightest. When you tell your manager your having a problem with something or someone, it's always a verbal conversation, never written. Once it's written down, it becomes evidence and they have to enforce it or accept it.

3.0
Mar 22, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Very accepting to work as a trans person. Good medical benefits.

Cons

Most people in "leadership" care only about one thing, making themselves look good to higher ups. From what I've seen, the company is quite poorly run on many levels. Very top down decision making process, despite the company's propaganda staring otherwise. Very little input from those doing the job. Managers with way too many reports is common. Low morale and lack of feeling like hard work matters or pays off in multiple orgs I worked in. Very passive aggressive style as a whole, which is maybe better than being aggressively toxic, but oftentimes hard to directly get at a problem because there is no direct accountability. Metrics often equal garbage in garbage out. Worse communication I have ever seen at anywhere I've worked, both inter and intra team. The S team is clueless and seems to be completely out of touch.

1.0
Mar 13, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Hybrid working arrangement (3 day office) - Fair compensation - A lot of foreigners in the office

Cons

- Toxic environment that promotes people who practices unfairly - Managers do not dare to defend team mates and care about themselves more.

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