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Great team, boring work - Software Development Engineer Amazon Web Services Employee Review

4.0
May 17, 2023
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Pros

I worked with a great team that was helpful, knowledgable, and hard-working.

Cons

There was a lot of turnover. After my 3 years, only 2 members of the original 15 members that started out on the team were there. I had 3 managers over 3 years. I think this had to do with the work that we were doing. The tech was old and there wasn't a lot of documentation or testing. Most of the knowledge was passed down verbally and during the pandemic that made it difficult to know how to talk to or where to look.

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5.0
Jun 22, 2026
Anonymous employee
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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
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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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