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Amazon Web Services

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Great for experience, just don't plan a career here - Head of Infrastructure Amazon Web Services Employee Review

2.0
Aug 1, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Great opportunities to learn how to work at massive scale. Learning is a daily task. Work with some of the brightest engineers in existence.

Cons

Senior leadership is lost and always looking to reduce headcount even with more and more work needing to be done. Once they decide you are not towing the line, they dig up "issues" from years past as a reason to push you out. The focus is on getting rid of people, not growing them.

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5.0
Jun 22, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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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
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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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