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      Good place to start your career - Software Development Engineer Amazon Web Services Employee Review

      3.0
      5 Sept 2024
      Software development engineer
      Recommend
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      Pros

      - High level of independence and freedom, ability to make an impact - Competitive salary - Room for growth and clear plan to advance career

      Cons

      - Team culture and work-life balance extremely team dependent, often on the bad side - Low level of cooperation between teams. Often feels like many meetings and alignments are needed to get support from other teams. - High oncall and operational load, week-long oncall shifts and expected 2-3 nights a week to be woken up in the middle of the night. Putting out fires takes time away from interesting work. - Very poor benefits compared to competitors (no free food/snacks, very poor 401k match, etc.)

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      5.0
      27 May 2026
      Paralegal/legal assistant
      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
      Software development manager
      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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