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Amazon Web Services

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Depends on your team - Senior Software Engineer Amazon Web Services Employee Review

5.0
19 Apr 2025
Recommend
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Pros

If you get lucky and get a good team, you lucked out. You will learn a ton of new and relevant stuff. PEs can be very good, and are often flexible. This isn't a minor league job - you have to be ready for category 5 storms. But if you can handle it, life becomes great. I absolutely loved every moment of working at AWS so far.

Cons

Leadership is process heavy. Top-heavy leadership. Compensation seems to be lacking compared to other FANG

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5.0
22 Jun 2026
Anonymous employee
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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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