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Good pay and exciting AI work, but leadership varies - Software Development Engineer Amazon Web Services Employee Review

4.0
Jul 13, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- Good pay - Lots of AI-related work and the ability to work on new technologies - Very quick-paced

Cons

- Experience super dependent on leadership, can be a little difficult when leadership does not take the time to understand team or product and instead just wants to use AI to fix everything

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5.0
Jul 17, 2026
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Pros

talented co workers, cutting edge technology

Cons

no hybrid work- 5 days in office

3.0
Jun 21, 2026
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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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