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Chaos - Solution Architect Amazon Web Services Employee Review

1.0
Nov 14, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

TC is amazing if you are hopping from industry or consulting.

Cons

You will wake up every day with imposter syndrome. By the time you overcome your fears, you will be let go. There is no clear direction from middle management and thus the chaos. There are multiple folks/teams trying to snatch away from a small piece of work that comes from clients. This also means, you are either hired to be fired asURA or they over hired to build their empire. Do you want to run politics or innovate? choice is yours. Did I mention manager feedback is fake? It pops up on your screen daily. If you give a bad rating then you are eliminated to make manager rating look good.

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5.0
Jun 22, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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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
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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