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Amazon Web Services reviews

3.6

62% would recommend to a friend

(13,998 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 13,998 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
3.0
Feb 4, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Work on projects at global scale. Get to sometimes use cutting edge tech. Some teams and orgs offer a lot of diversity and this job favors folks who are self-motivated. You can get a lot done if you're willing to have no life. Lot of learning opportunities to level up yourself. Pay is great.

Cons

The way the teams are setup, you're ranked either in the top 50% or bottom. Raising the bar is a huge part of the game here. Instead of being happy for your teammates overworking to achieve their projects, you must be worried if you don't work on something cool as them, you can be considered least effective. The internal tooling is the worst and you'll spend most of your career debugging internal crap vs using the latest tech. So much technical debt on teams, it can be a nightmare.

2.0
Feb 3, 2023

revolving door

Recommend
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Pros

Can express my opinion, implement changes, fast paced. High paying

Cons

Not a culture of warm and fuzzies, or long term. Like a revolving door. You often find people that are no longer here, only through them not responding or they just disappear from directory. When we're busy, there's not that great of a work life balance. Also in recruiting specifically, lots of corporate bs (like writing docs, reports, etc) that aren't really used for anything more than upper management to justify them being there

1.0
Jan 21, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

The pay is great and the team I worked with was helpful ms

Cons

Do not trust you will stay employed long. AWS is customer obsessed so they will throw staff under the bus any chance they can. Whether that is lying to sell any job to persuade you to take an offer, no work life balance (averaging 60-70 hour work weeks), impossible metric goals, continuous layoffs… don’t do it.

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