Amazon Web Services reviews

Very poor leadership in most orgs

Expect zero onboarding (outdated materials). When I started, I was working grueling hours and giving up my weekends just to figure things out on my own and keep things afloat. Compensation raise is poor. Attrition rate 70% per year. You will often be held fully accountable for things completely outside your control. I was blamed despite receiving no internal support to manage the fallout. Tribal culture. The promotion timeline to the next level is incredibly rigid and penalizing. You can work incredibly hard, dive into to fix design problems, and independently save the company millions in infrastructure costs, only to have other internal corporate teams claim the credit. Even when you execute flawlessly on your current projects, you are forced to wait years for arbitrary promotion cycles to catch up,