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Terrible culture - Principal HR Business Partner Amazon Web Services Employee Review

1.0
17 Apr 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Paid well for the first two years given stock/base pay structure of packages; very strategic way of working

Cons

Bad behavior is applauded and promoted; weaponization of leadership principles; extremely top-down decision-making that causes chaos in the business

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5.0
14 Jun 2026
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Pros

Decent work life balance, great engineers

Cons

Wish the work was more interesting not their fault tho.

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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