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Amazon Web Services reviews

3.6

63% would recommend to a friend

(13,975 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 13,975 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
Jun 27, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

High rate of pay in comparison to current market in Ireland.

Cons

-lack of coopration - not time for anything - micromaangement - working for 3 people, when not busy for 2 only - high stress environment with customers all day long demanding you to fix in 5 minutes what then were creating for years - cases and availability for either email or live contacts metrics, so if you work for customer 1 with things you need to replicate you are expected to be also available for another customer to come with another case, plus you get pagged and messages from Slack all the time from other engineers and technical account managers following up this or other cases all the time - you have to resolve like 2-3 cases per day and these are never simple as they in general take 3 days or longer to for resolution, so you have to build up your lobby and work at least 5 per day to met metrics - no time for learning or development during work, you be lucky if you have time to have lunch in peace - hiring freeze until last month, but a lot of non-EU staff were hiered in last year, most of engineers is not from Europe - if your manager is non-EU prepare for long hours and constant brainwash about metrics and goals

1.0
Jun 17, 2024

The Worst

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great backend tech, but peel back the onion and you'll see terrible engineering behavior. Taking work and not giving credit to the ProServe that originally developed the product, because the engineering folks have to prove they are producing to keep their job. It creates a culture of pushing others down to prove your value. I saw this from the outside without committing a single line of code, but can you blame engineering for stealing code when they have a family and have to keep their H1B status or leave Seattle and get shipped back to India?

Cons

AWS is the worst company I've worked for in over 20 years of employment. All that glitters is not gold. They tell you upfront that the average tenure of an employee is 1 year, so you need to ask yourself why people won't last. There is a huge variety in Sales. Some accounts are incredibly well-run run and some are dysfunctional. I complained to HR, got "pivoted" out the door and now I'm making an angry post on Glassdoor. Our sales staff shouldn't have inappropriate relationships with multiple people in our customer's leadership team. Ethics in sales needs to be a bigger deal and stop firing people who try to wake you up.

1.0
Jun 5, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Incredibly smart people who consistently raise the bar

Cons

So many things...lack of trust, ridiculous RTO policies, not re-leveling on pay grades, non-stop reorgs

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