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Opportunities for growth and corporate misery/BS - Software Engineer Amazon Web Services Employee Review

3.0

Dec 9, 2025

Software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Lots of opportunities to tackle high impact projects and growth opportunities, own projects, etc.

Cons

Work life balance is awful, depending on team. Lots of empire building, over promising and under delivering for the sake of PR wins, unimpressed with overall engineering/software development talent. They want to treat SDEs like service slinging monkeys --- complex products requiring domain expertise struggle since service SDEs are the primary employee commodity.

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5.0

May 17, 2026

Salesforce developer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Good work culture Supportive leaders

Cons

No cons Full time onsite is tough

3.0

Jul 1, 2026

Account executive

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

- Strong place to be early in your career as it provides valuable training and the brand recognition can create strong future opportunities. - Is great if you’re interested in what you’re doing/selling

Cons

- 5 days in office is not great for work/life balance - If your manager doesn’t like you, good luck! - 401k match is lower than most companies - Base salary compensation is weak compared to other big tech - Leveling/career progression is near impossible due to reorgs leading to a promotion “freeze” - Role can evolve over time in ways that may not align with original job expectations

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