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literally the worst - Senior Frontend Engineer Amazon Web Services Employee Review

1.0
Feb 14, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

brilliant coworkers. Pay is better than non FAANG companies (worst for FANNG).

Cons

the days of AWS being innovative and responsive are long over. The internal tooling is the absolute worst. It's is largely a political entity. 80% of your time is bureaucratic overhead. Incentives are misaligned such that everyone is afraid to do good work and there is a large amount of political intrigue. Many of the values have been corrupted and turned against itself. Brilliant coworkers, held back by something fundamentally broken.

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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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