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Amazon Web Services

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Don’t be fooled. - Senior Recruiter Amazon Web Services Employee Review

1.0
21 Jan 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The pay is great and the team I worked with was helpful ms

Cons

Do not trust you will stay employed long. AWS is customer obsessed so they will throw staff under the bus any chance they can. Whether that is lying to sell any job to persuade you to take an offer, no work life balance (averaging 60-70 hour work weeks), impossible metric goals, continuous layoffs… don’t do it.

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5.0
28 Apr 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

work life balance nice place

Cons

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3.0
15 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Unmatched Scale: You get to work on systems that handle millions of requests per second. The technical challenges are genuinely fascinating and great for your career. Smart Colleagues: You are surrounded by incredibly sharp engineers. You will learn more here in one year than in three years at most other companies.

Cons

Work-Life Balance (WLB): Highly dependent on your team, but generally poor. On-call rotations can be brutal, and there is a constant pressure to deliver more, faster. Burnout Culture: The "Day 1" mentality means things move fast, but it also leads to high turnover. The stack-ranking and PIP (Performance Improvement Plan) culture creates unnecessary anxiety.

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