Amazon Web Services reviews

1) Far more bureaucratic than one would suspect 2) In an effort to always raise the bar, humanity and empathy can be lost 3) Leadership can be immune to an understanding of what is being asked of the folks doing the work 4) Easy to work yourself to death and to get to a point where you burnout 5) The quality of leadership is spotty. Some leaders get it while others were promoted to a level of incompetence/leadership is an afterthought 6) Every decision seeming requires a doc... and every doc requires multiple doc reads. Your job can easily go from Are Right, A Lot to that of a writer trying to get your book published and working with a cranky editor

Mandatory on-call. I've experienced it as frequently as 1 week out of 3 for several months at a time. Some of the teams regularly have their oncall woken up in the middle of the night on most nights for minor issues. A lot of the oncall work could be automated away, but automation never gets prioritized because there is always some upcoming deadline for a big important project. I've been told by multiple people that the "leadership principal" about Amazon striving to be "Earth's best employer" is only for PR and I shouldn't expect anyone to balance it against "customer obsession".