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Great place for learning every day - Software Development Engineer (SDE) Amazon Web Services Employee Review

4.0
Nov 4, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Being surrounded by some of the most brilliant minds in the industry is always a good motivator. You will get not only the hard skills that come from the job, but also your thinking will evolve and you will have tools to face all kinds of problems with different lenses.

Cons

Many changes in leadership all the time, while promotion is meant to be in your hands, it will be really challenging to make progress with those changes, you better be ready and focused on defending career progression.

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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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