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Work Culture at AWS is really bad - Software Development Engineer II Amazon Web Services Employee Review

1.0
Dec 9, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Good compensation, honestly that is it!

Cons

A lot of corporate politics and no value for employees or teams. The culture among teammates is toxic, everyone is trying to step over each other's work, unnecessarily delaying feature launch by means of PR comments, and unnecessary changes just to portray the poor performance of the feature owner. I am a victim of racism and biasing, I reported but no actions were taken. In fact, at Amazon, every manager needs to cut off 1 person from their team every year in the name of talent refresh. My manager couldn't cut anyone from the existing teammates as they were important to her, so she decided to do a workaround, she hired me just to fire me after 5 months. She deliberately evaluated my performance wrong on papers to present that as the reason for termination. No actions were taken after reporting the actual evaluation and how she mistreated me with these evaluations.

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5.0
Jun 8, 2026
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Pros

Great team when you have a manager and full team that works well and collaborates well. Stock is great. And you know when youre doing well, the pay increase is roughly the same as everyone else.

Cons

Low perks compared to other FAANG companies and most teams have high turn over

3.0
Jul 1, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- Strong place to be early in your career as it provides valuable training and the brand recognition can create strong future opportunities. - Is great if you’re interested in what you’re doing/selling

Cons

- 5 days in office is not great for work/life balance - If your manager doesn’t like you, good luck! - 401k match is lower than most companies - Base salary compensation is weak compared to other big tech - Leveling/career progression is near impossible due to reorgs leading to a promotion “freeze” - Role can evolve over time in ways that may not align with original job expectations

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