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      Amazon Web Services reviews

      3.6

      62% would recommend to a friend

      (14,079 total reviews)
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      Matt Garman

      52% approve of CEO

      62% positive business outlook

      Ratings by demographic groups

      Amazon Web Services has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 14,079 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Amazon Web Services employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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      14K reviews
      1.0
      Apr 23, 2025

      Limited Growth Opportunities

      Software development engineer (sde)
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Very fast paced - Lots of unique challenges - Large-scope projects

      Cons

      - Extremely limited growth opportunities unless you play lots of office politics and are willing to undermine teammates - L7+ are allowed to retaliate and discriminate without consequences - Poor compensation compared to expected output - Terrible Work-Life balance and unwillingness from upper and middle management to improve

      1.0
      Apr 17, 2025

      Terrible culture

      Principal hr business partner
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      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

      2.0
      Apr 16, 2025

      So much potential, little follow-through

      Senior recruiter
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Way more opportunity to innovate and make an impact than I expected from such an enormous company. Great people, very fast-moving, definitely pushes you outside your comfort zone.

      Cons

      Opportunities are there, but incredibly slow to see change. A very, very heavy top-to-bottom approach to everything from tooling to HR policies. You have to operate within a 'one-size-fits-all' model and there is no room for nuance. Very approval heavy, escalation heavy, can be draining and slow down your work. **The RTO policy is devastating. So much amazing talent lost, and it's so difficult to position Amazon as an employer of choice when policies are so forceful and tone deaf. That, combined with more and more limitations on compensation (limited pay raises, no bonus structure) makes it hard to feel like you are being compensated for your work.

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