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Amazon Web Services reviews

3.6

62% would recommend to a friend

(14,106 total reviews)
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Matt Garman

52% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Amazon Web Services has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 14,106 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
Dec 5, 2024

Honeymoon to divorce quickly

Recommend
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Pros

Pay is decent, but not compared to other big tech.

Cons

Terrible work life balance, poor benefits, and frequently get pay decreases rather than increases. If you plan on climbing the corporate ladder, you can make a lot of money though Middle managers here are especially bad

2.0
Dec 4, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Fast pace, smart coworkers, strong engineering culture, most LPs are good and people try to follow them

Cons

Company leadership does not care one bit for employees. You are and expendable cog in a machine, and they can and will work you to death then dump you out with the trash in a heartbeat.

2.0
Dec 3, 2024

Some good, lot of bad

Recommend
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Pros

Breadth of experience - you'll be thrown into the deep end of the pool often. Very sink or swim culture which means that you get quite a bit of exposure and opportunities to learn.

Cons

Constant reorgs, little to no mentorship, highly political promotion process, etc. WLB is team dependent but on the AWS side, expect to be quite busy on average. There's a constant sense that everything is an emergency; not helpful that it's normalized by many managers. There are definitely some diamonds in the rough but your stability and pressures are overwhelmingly driven by manager personality.

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