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Smart people, abysmal C-suite team, toxic culture & office politics - Scientist Amazon Web Services Employee Review

1.0
25 Oct 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

* Interesting problems * Dynamic work environment * Reasonably well funded (e.g., good amount of compute available) * Competitive salaries

Cons

* Abysmal C-suite team, which uses RTO as means to avoid layoff. Now that more innovation is needed, we will waste time on commute. Then, we will come to the office to do video-conferencing anyways, b/c most teams are distributed! * Unreasonable deadlines (for some teams, not universally true across the org) * Toxic culture & office politics partly caused by stack ranking and fear of being put on PIP (performance improvement plans)

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5.0
22 Jun 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
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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