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Amazon Web Services

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Big tech cloud service with a lot of legacy, painful ops, and slow processes - Software Development Engineer II Amazon Web Services Employee Review

2.0
15 Aug 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good place to learn cloud practices and familiarise with AWS offerings. Can be a good career starter. There are rockstar developers you can learn from if you are lucky to work with them.

Cons

Processes are very slow, a lot of work related to ops. And oncalls can be extremely painful. Very easy to burnout. Slow career progression, very high level of competition for meaningful work that impacts promotion.

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5.0
26 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Awesome team - great culture. Very customer focused.

Cons

It's not a great fit for folks who are not aligned to the culture.

3.0
21 Jun 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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