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Great company overall, great place to start out - Software Development Engineer II Amazon Web Services Employee Review

5.0
27 Apr 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Starting right out of college, Amazon provided me with a great environment to grow core team software development skills like writing design docs well, escalating where appropriate, clean code, etc. Teammates are intelligent and helpful, seldom had a bad collaborative experience. There exist opportunities for job growth, if you actively look for them. Management does a pretty good job of giving those opportunities to promising underlings.

Cons

AWS generally prefers to use proprietary internal tooling instead of industry standard solutions. Devs use totally-not-Docker package management, totally-not-Asana scrum planning tools, and a totally-not-GitHub collaborative review interface. These tools are all fully functional, but they don't always have the best user interfaces, making onboarding to them a bit of a hassle for new devs. These proprietary tools also silo existing AWS devs into the AWS infrastructure.

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5.0
22 Jun 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
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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