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Define Your Career - Software Engineer Amazon Web Services Employee Review

5.0
Mar 18, 2023
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Pros

Amazon is big on ownership. Whining wont get you anywhere, and neither will entitlement. Take control of your own destiny and start building things and solving problems. At Amazon each branch of the org chart is a company. The manager is basically the CEO (even for 2 pizza teams). So pick a manager you click with, otherwise it can be hell. Once you found where you belong, stay there for at least 4 years and become deeply involved. This is how you move up the ladder. If you only care about salary and benefits, do us all a favour and go somewhere else…

Cons

The manager controls your fate and so does your entire management chain. Some orgs are a disaster. Orgs are basically separate companies. Your very first priority is to realize that you were hired for amazon. Put pressure on bad teams and orgs by switching to another team or org, your manager can not block that.

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5.0
Jun 22, 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
Jun 21, 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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