Amazon Web Services Software Development Engineer reviews

Dissonant, disjointed onboarding process, with trainings frequently divorced from the reality of day-to-day development Huge swaths of technology no one actually uses anymore Ask any engineer about something onboarding says to use and the response is "oh, I actually do xyz instead" Senior engineers, while extremely friendly and helpful, don't have enough time to meaningfully coach new hires Awful, insufficiently deep or fully nonexistent documentation for large, complex services

I read a lot of horror stories about Amazon while I was going through the application process, but my experience--emphasis on "my experience"; I can't speak for the whole organization--has been very different from them so far: my team has been very friendly, I haven't felt any tugs of competition or politics, and although a lot is expected of you, it isn't an unreasonable amount. I'm sure that this depends heavily on your manager and director, as well as the service you're working on, but I can say that the company isn't universally cutthroat and ultra-high stress all the time. Yes, you're expected to work hard and produce high quality results, and the feedback you get probably won't be sugarcoated if you fall short of that. But if you're willing to put in the time and effort, you'll do just fine.