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Come Here if you Like Playing the Squid Game - Software Development Manager Amazon Web Services Employee Review

3.0
31 Mar 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Pay is high, competitive with other tech companies Working with talented engineers Opportunity to learn a lot on a daily basis

Cons

Super political at management level, lot of in-fighting Leadership principles are weaponized to favor the org ruler Target to remove 6.5% employees per year, kills trust (squid game) No work life balance since leadership takes on unachievable goals

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11 Jun 2026
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Pros

Great team working on interesting work

Cons

Promotions can vary a lot team to team

3.0
21 Jun 2026
Recommend
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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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