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A Waste of 2 Years - Datacenter Technician Amazon Web Services Employee Review

2.0
31 Aug 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good benefits, adequate pay, resume booster.

Cons

Managers who care about people are demoted while managers who are uncaring, rude, and set unreasonable expectations are promoted. There's no company culture except producing results. Everything is automated so you don't learn how the technology works. I felt like a robot doing the same thing day in and day out. Also, they hire disproportionately young men, and women were not being promoted to management. In theory, AWS is pro-diversity, however in practice, individuals are blatantly homophobic.

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5.0
22 Jun 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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