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Amazon Web Services reviews

3.6

62% would recommend to a friend

(13,950 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 13,950 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 9, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Decent pay, goodish benefits for the money

Cons

AWS does not value experienced technicians, they try to force you to get promoted in 2 years or less. If you don't comply, they invent a reason to get rid of you. Make a mistake? Fired. Growth demands are unsustainable, timelines are hilariously unrealistic. Safety is NOT the priority they say it is. Leaders only care about their next promo. Jeff bozo didn't get where he is without putting $$$ over people. All of your coworkers will openly talk about quitting. Nobody actually cares about their jobs or the company, it's just a bad place to work.

1.0
Apr 9, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Big-name resume booster - Smart teammates (when they stick around) - Lots of internal documentation... for things that no longer exist - Free coffee and existential dread - You learn what not to do

Cons

- Assigned a manager with the emotional intelligence of a potato - Landed on the “Focus” list before I even got a chance to focus - Zero communication until suddenly: surprise reorg! - My manager got fired, and I found out from Slack gossip - The org structure changes more often than the cafe menu

4.0
Mar 28, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

AWS is a good place to work, the business is still growing fairly rapidly and if you maintain good work visibility you could stay at L6 forever. It's a comfortable salary with personal growth potential if you put in the work. I had supportive managers that pushed me to learn and grow. The people in my immediate org were fun to hang out with and other orgs were accessible and open to help you if you asked for it. Overall it's good in the sales org and I recommend it as a place to work.

Cons

AWS used to be on the bleeding edge, releasing inspiring service updates and had this exciting vision of the future, but that vision has largely faded in the wake of GenAI mania. GenAI caught AWS off guard in 2022 and the organic cloud growth shifted to "hard selling" customers on GenAI services, which changed the sales org for the worse. Leaders became hyperfocused on individual metrics and salesforce numbers which put a lot of stress on everyone. In my opinion AWS hasn't released anything really ground breaking since 2021, just incremental improvements to already good cloud services. This culture change put a lot of people into "fear mode" as scrutiny increased, but the daily work was largely the same. But if you know how to navigate the expectations, and being "inspired" isn't your thing, then you can easily thrive at AWS.

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