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Horrible burnout culture! - Software Engineer Amazon Web Services Employee Review

1.0
Dec 12, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

None! Oh, wait, if you are in Seattle you can get bananas that are worth 10 cents a piece ¬¬.

Cons

There's so much here... Low pay, inhumane workload, lack of career development, lack of diversity, basic health benefits, 401k does NOT vest unless you stay for 3 years, burnout culture, backloaded stock grant, no stock refreshers, 0,5% to 3% raises are considered "top performer". Complete slaughter house. And if that was not enough, be ready to work on the crappiest codebase you've ever seen!

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5.0
Jun 22, 2026
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Pros

Strong engineering culture, competitive pay, great learning opportunities, and excellent internal mobility across teams.

Cons

Work-life balance can be tough, on-call rotations are demanding, and the pace is fast with high expectations.

3.0
Jun 21, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Ambitious projects if you're in the right team. Typically great team-mates. Don't believe the memes, the ppl are not back stabbing jerks but are overall genuinely nice. Not constrained by budgets when building cool things. Tools while sometimes clunky are powerful.

Cons

Schizophrenic lack of focus, entire teams get split, merged and upended multiple times a quarter. Some product managers are disconnected from reality. It didn't use to be the case, the PM-Ts were previously top notch. You're pushed to vibe code everything. Established products with loyal customers are getting neglected. Newer VP level leaders don't seem to know what they are doing. Veteran OG VP level leaders are either leaving in droves or seem stressed or checked out.

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