Amazon Web Services reviews

Culture of extreme fear, peer/team backstabbing, reprisals - extremely politically motivated workplace. My team had 50% turnover YoY because people left of their own volition. Absolutely no focus on quality, only speed, confusing the sensation of motion with little actual progress. There is literally no strategy or product roadmap, it's incredible to see *if your not the one who has to build it* no product requirements, user needs, goals, KPIs, OKRs, objectives, use cases, etc; the PM role does none of these thing (although good SDMs try to fill in the gaps). Managers will eat their own and sell you down the river to get a 2% bonus, while lying to your face about it. Everyone is just trying to collect as much money as they can before leaving themselves or retiring. Business/management schools need to write books on this place...

Recruiters overtly lied to head-hunt myself and 3 former colleagues from our former company. All 4 of us had virtual work locations specified in our offer letter and Amazon essentially laid us off by saying relocate to the Arlington, VA office by a specified date or you're effectively resigning. Duplicate then eliminate makes pointing out inadequacies in competing teams work products tantamount to your survival here. Many of L8 Directors in different organizations were incredibly unprofessional and lacked backbone.