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Amazon Web Services

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Good pay and learning opportunities, but frequent layoffs loom - Senior Delivery Consultant Amazon Web Services Employee Review

4.0
15 Apr 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Ability to learn new technologies and skills outside of your field of knowledge. Freedom to self manage when you have a good manager. Benefits are excellent. Starting pay is very good and higher than most other jobs. Starting pay is based on base salary and 2 years of bonuses. Employees have the freedom to choose projects they are interested in joining and set their schedule. You have some limited ability to travel.

Cons

Frequent layoffs without notice or explanation (employees encouraged to "focus on work" and not worry about layoff speculation). Starting 3 year and beyond a major portion of compensation is based on stock which is given at managers discretion and influenced by stock market performance. A bad manager can drastically lower your pay. Some managers push for more output to earn more pay without clear guidelines or expectations. Company shifts priorities regularly based on new leadership. Consultants reassigned managers almost yearly. Ability to travel for work mostly gone after Covid. Most team members don't work in the same location and have very little interaction.

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5.0
27 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great job. I’ve learned so much it is just hard with 5 day rto

Cons

The 5 day RTO mandate

3.0
21 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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