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Great place to work for - Software Development Engineer II Amazon Web Services Employee Review

4.0
Mar 27, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

- Interesting Problems - Interesting People - Different interesting avenues to explore

Cons

- Top down decision can feel like engineers are after-thought and not involved in decision making or don't have a voice - Politics can play a role, although not so much that it's unbearable - Things change fast - Long hours, but you are excited to do them? Although, manager try to discourage this. But things move so fast, that it can feel like falling behind and you have to compensate

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5.0
Apr 23, 2026
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Pros

good work life balance; many transfer opportunities

Cons

less base pay than industry average

3.0
Jun 13, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- Good pay - Interesting work (team dependent)

Cons

- Politics often gets in the way of good work - Clueless, rudderless leadership just cause problems (can be org dependent) - People are encouraged to only do things that check arbitrary criteria for promotion, trying to do what's best or what's right is discouraged - Not many extra benefits compared to other big tech - Work/life balance can be rough (team dependent)

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