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Very good - Systems Development Engineer Amazon Web Services Employee Review

5.0
Jun 8, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Nowhere is perfect, but here is as close as I've seen. Your career is what you make it and AWS is a great place to make it great. You have to be self-driven, but it doesn't really matter, that's the case no matter where you are since you're the only one who knows what you want & need best.

Cons

Depends where you're at I'm sure, but there've been a significant amount of re-orgs since I've been here. That amount of churn is never good, but I've come to expect it at any big company. A lot is happening and change is the norm. If you want less change, you are going to have to go work for the gov't or some small well established company.

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Working with latest and greatest technology

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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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