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Great company and experience - Software Development Manager Amazon Web Services Employee Review

5.0
25 May 2023
Recommend
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Pros

An opportunity to work with some of the brightest and most influential engineers in my field. The company has scale that is hard to fathom and decisions you make can impact millions of users and billions of servers. They are a growth oriented company and put pressure on me as a leader to develop my ICs and provide them career advancement.

Cons

Amazon is very proud of its peculiar culture and coming from the industry into AWS can be a bit unintuitive. Being older than most of the established norms, Amazon does things their own way and it takes a while to think the way your peers do. Until you do, it's very hard to make any headway or earn the trust of your peers to make proposals or get big projects moving. This is powerful but can cause insular thinking and has led to some teams acquiring massive amounts of tech debt rather than looking to places in the industry who have solved this problem.

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5.0
22 Jun 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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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
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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