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Cultural Pitfall - Leadership Amazon Web Services Employee Review

1.0
30 May 2023
Recommend
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Pros

The salary is great, and having an abundant amount of money will help when they conjure a reason to give you the shaft.

Cons

The environment resembles a cult. You must breathe, eat, and speak Amazonian or become an outcast. The organization is full of leaders who pretend to know much more than they do. It's all about leveling, which leads individuals to steal, kill and destroy one another. Ideas are stolen, strategy doesn't exist, and collaboration is a foreign word.

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5.0
26 Jun 2026
Recommend
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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
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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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