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Deficient leadership, lack of organization, unrealistic expectations - Software Development Manager Amazon Web Services Employee Review

3.0
Aug 31, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Opportunity to work with great and very inteligent people - for the most part - , cutting edge technology and get to know the internals of AWS services. Everyone has an enormous impact from day one.

Cons

I am not sure if it's Amazon, AWS or only this organization but there was a lot of chaos. A complete lack of direction from leadership. As a manager I had to spend a lot of time building unrealistic plans to satisfy the VP and then had to redo them in many opportunities to adjust to the real schedule. The expectations are completely unrealistic, there is no plan. If someone asks you to do something they want it for yesterday. At first hours were pretty much normal but then I changed manager and ended up working non-stop including weekends to satisfy requirements from my manager that worked non-stop as if that was the only thing that existed. In my opinion Amazon - or at least this org -is not a company for moms or people that have other interests or responsibilities outside work.

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5.0
Jun 22, 2026
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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
Jun 21, 2026
Recommend
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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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