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Amazon Web Services

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Big tech cloud service with a lot of legacy, painful ops, and slow processes - Software Development Engineer II Amazon Web Services Employee Review

2.0
Aug 15, 2024
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Pros

Good place to learn cloud practices and familiarise with AWS offerings. Can be a good career starter. There are rockstar developers you can learn from if you are lucky to work with them.

Cons

Processes are very slow, a lot of work related to ops. And oncalls can be extremely painful. Very easy to burnout. Slow career progression, very high level of competition for meaningful work that impacts promotion.

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5.0
Jun 22, 2026
Anonymous employee
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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.

5.0
Jul 13, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Excellent pay/benefits, Safety first mindset, flexible scheduling, fantastic training program, phenomenal team support, convenient locations. Plenty of pathways for career advancement and full support for self promotion. Culture is fantastic. You really can be yourself and make many new friends fast. Teamwork is outstanding. Everyone is always willing to help.

Cons

Growing so fast that it's hard to keep the same manager. I've had four managers in two months. Constantly have to adapt to new procedures and changes and working locations. Always in a state of flux. Standards keep changing all the time

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