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      Opportunities for growth and corporate misery/BS - Software Engineer Amazon Web Services Employee Review

      3.0
      9 Dec 2025
      Software engineer
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Lots of opportunities to tackle high impact projects and growth opportunities, own projects, etc.

      Cons

      Work life balance is awful, depending on team. Lots of empire building, over promising and under delivering for the sake of PR wins, unimpressed with overall engineering/software development talent. They want to treat SDEs like service slinging monkeys --- complex products requiring domain expertise struggle since service SDEs are the primary employee commodity.

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      5.0
      27 May 2026
      Paralegal/legal assistant
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Great job. I’ve learned so much it is just hard with 5 day rto

      Cons

      The 5 day RTO mandate

      3.0
      21 Jun 2026
      Software development manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      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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