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Amazon Web Services

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Opportunity and growth but corporate and high pressure - Software Engineer I Amazon Web Services Employee Review

4.0
17 Aug 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Great possibilities for growth i.e. transfers and promotions. Learning opportunities in a wide variety of fields and topics. Very well paid. Benefits are on point. Nice tech too. Endless possibilities to join campaigns or communities for charity or fun. Teams are small and self-managed for the most part. You get to own your product more than any other corporate I have worked for.

Cons

Very high pressure job - expect to work overtime for your first 6 months or so. Very specific ecosystem - relearn a lot to do it the AWS way, i.e. Git or builds. Corporate structure - Though teams are small and self-managed, review processes etc. are quite impersonal checklist-style. Team members all across AWS rotate to be 'On Call', which means you will respond within 15min if your service is down at any time day or night.

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5.0
8 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great team when you have a manager and full team that works well and collaborates well. Stock is great. And you know when youre doing well, the pay increase is roughly the same as everyone else.

Cons

Low perks compared to other FAANG companies and most teams have high turn over

3.0
15 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Unmatched Scale: You get to work on systems that handle millions of requests per second. The technical challenges are genuinely fascinating and great for your career. Smart Colleagues: You are surrounded by incredibly sharp engineers. You will learn more here in one year than in three years at most other companies.

Cons

Work-Life Balance (WLB): Highly dependent on your team, but generally poor. On-call rotations can be brutal, and there is a constant pressure to deliver more, faster. Burnout Culture: The "Day 1" mentality means things move fast, but it also leads to high turnover. The stack-ranking and PIP (Performance Improvement Plan) culture creates unnecessary anxiety.

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