Amazon Web Services reviews

It's a very toxic environment. Its full of staff who lolly-gag around, block decision making and have a tendency to have inexperienced staff pretend they know far more than they do and try to punish you if you have more knowledge then them in specific areas. There are only a few really brilliant people at AWS, the rest just scramble around aimlessly trying to follow in their trails.

Benefits are not that competitive against peers, especially time off. My team suffered from some scope issues at the higher levels (promotions beyond 6 were difficult to impossible for political reasons). As everyone surely knows, Amazon's senior leadership has top-downed an aggressive RTO policy. Sure, plenty of tech companies have implemented RTO. Amazon's leadership just did it in an incredibly deceitful, trust-destroying way. The implementation details of what they landed on at the point I left were already worse (less flexible, less room for managers to make day to day exceptions) than Amazon's peers. Obviously, by next January, they will be even worse.