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Amazon Web Services

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Make what you can out of it and always have an eye open towards your next act - Cloud Infrastructure Architect Amazon Web Services Employee Review

4.0
Jul 14, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Lots of smart people and chances to learn. Lots of opportunities to work on projects of scale hard to find elsewhere. Used to be a meritocracy. Good pay!

Cons

I was at AWS from 2014 to 2022 as a CIA, TAM, and SA. At this time Amazon still operated as a scrappy startup and was a meritocracy. Around 2020 this changed and hiring decisions were made based on DEI bingo. Very demoralizing. That aside, the stress of any role will eventually get to you. It's a 4 year program and I stayed almost twice as long because I was working with cool customers and projects, but have an exit plan lined up. Amazon considers humans resources to be consumed and churned through. Anything bad you've heard about Amazon is likely true! :)

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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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