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Lack of leadership at all levels - Material Coordinator Amazon Web Services Employee Review

3.0
Mar 22, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Very accepting to work as a trans person. Good medical benefits.

Cons

Most people in "leadership" care only about one thing, making themselves look good to higher ups. From what I've seen, the company is quite poorly run on many levels. Very top down decision making process, despite the company's propaganda staring otherwise. Very little input from those doing the job. Managers with way too many reports is common. Low morale and lack of feeling like hard work matters or pays off in multiple orgs I worked in. Very passive aggressive style as a whole, which is maybe better than being aggressively toxic, but oftentimes hard to directly get at a problem because there is no direct accountability. Metrics often equal garbage in garbage out. Worse communication I have ever seen at anywhere I've worked, both inter and intra team. The S team is clueless and seems to be completely out of touch.

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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
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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