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Pay is good but that's about it - Anonymous employee Amazon Web Services Employee Review

2.0
Dec 21, 2022
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Competitive salary compared to DevOps roles offered in South Africa by other companies.

Cons

Although they've moved to a remote working model, expect extreme micro management and a constant push to exceed your monthly targets (case resolves). You could be a top performer that contributes to multiple side project but at the end of the day all that matters is the number of case resolves you get - it's essentially a call center job. These targets are measured daily, weekly and monthly and each hour you work is monitored by your manager. Customers are able to rate your work and this adds an extra level of stress and anxiety to each day as majority of the time these ratings are due to a disappointment in an AWS feature. If you are unable to cope under pressure I would recommend thinking hard about whether you want to accept the position. They have a monthly meeting where engineers can voice their concerns however this is just for show as management cherry picks what they want to address and deflects suggestions with absurd excuses. Expect to work long hours some days and get fewer leave days depending on which shift you get put on.

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5.0
Jun 22, 2026
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Pros

Strong engineering culture, competitive pay, great learning opportunities, and excellent internal mobility across teams.

Cons

Work-life balance can be tough, on-call rotations are demanding, and the pace is fast with high expectations.

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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