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The Worst - Senior Solutions Architect Amazon Web Services Employee Review

1.0
17 Jun 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Great backend tech, but peel back the onion and you'll see terrible engineering behavior. Taking work and not giving credit to the ProServe that originally developed the product, because the engineering folks have to prove they are producing to keep their job. It creates a culture of pushing others down to prove your value. I saw this from the outside without committing a single line of code, but can you blame engineering for stealing code when they have a family and have to keep their H1B status or leave Seattle and get shipped back to India?

Cons

AWS is the worst company I've worked for in over 20 years of employment. All that glitters is not gold. They tell you upfront that the average tenure of an employee is 1 year, so you need to ask yourself why people won't last. There is a huge variety in Sales. Some accounts are incredibly well-run run and some are dysfunctional. I complained to HR, got "pivoted" out the door and now I'm making an angry post on Glassdoor. Our sales staff shouldn't have inappropriate relationships with multiple people in our customer's leadership team. Ethics in sales needs to be a bigger deal and stop firing people who try to wake you up.

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5.0
22 Jun 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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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
21 Jun 2026
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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