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Amazon Web Services reviews

3.6

62% would recommend to a friend

(14,059 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 14,059 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
2.0
Aug 4, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

*Competitive compensation if you just miss or barely make your number. *Backing of a well-known technology giant enhances credibility with customers *Easy to open doors thanks to strong brand recognition and market presence

Cons

*Success in sales is not measured primarily by results, but by alignment with internal culture and adherence to Leadership Principles *Culture often rewards self-promotion and internal visibility over actual performance or customer outcomes *Sales compensation is capped with a "top stop" mechanism, limiting upside even when you significantly exceed quota *Heavy focus on DEI initiatives can feel performative at times and may influence leadership decisions more than merit or contribution *Frequent last-minute requests from upper management for non-revenue-driving data and internal reporting distract from core selling responsibilities

2.0
Aug 1, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great opportunities to learn how to work at massive scale. Learning is a daily task. Work with some of the brightest engineers in existence.

Cons

Senior leadership is lost and always looking to reduce headcount even with more and more work needing to be done. Once they decide you are not towing the line, they dig up "issues" from years past as a reason to push you out. The focus is on getting rid of people, not growing them.

2.0
Aug 1, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

High pay and flexible hours sometimes

Cons

Vastly over complicated processes. They take every single thing totally apart and put it back together their own unique way, sometimes with ok results, but mostly backwards, awkward and complex structures designed for profit, tracking your work and oversight. It was tough to find genuine personalities in management, mostly over promoted individuals great at one aspect, but lacking empathy and realization that AWS is NOT a boiler room cut throat recruiting agency.

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