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High-pressure environment with potential for great engineering teams - Software Engineer II Amazon Web Services Employee Review

4.0
May 14, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

1. Get to work on a scale in million customers, daily ~1mn rps 2. if lucky and land up in a good team, can work with good engineers that push yourself

Cons

1. High pressure, fast delivery rate (1 failure will set you back your achievements) 2. You need to lead your career from day1, not very supportive managers (in my case)

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5.0
Jun 25, 2026
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Pros

Great enviroment. Great people. Great benefits.

Cons

Stretched structure. Under qualified managers. Merciless recruiters

3.0
Jun 21, 2026
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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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