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Great place depending on the team - Sr. Software Development Manager Amazon Web Services Employee Review

4.0
May 12, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There are some great team, and manager. Lots of smart and hard working people around. Learnt a lot

Cons

Some teams can be painful to very painful. Amazon and AWS is like a beehive, despite having strong leadership principles, where each service runs fairly independently. You can find full spectrum, where some organization are managed very very well, and some are poor, and a some are real disasters. Choose the team and manager wisely.

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3.0
Jun 21, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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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