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real HW engineers beware - Anonymous employee Amazon Web Services Employee Review

3.0
19 Oct 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

WLB is good, Nice people, Recognition for achievements, Pay is good

Cons

Very little access to HW, expected to RC HW remotely, lab space is a joke, on-call duties are expected and can be awful, ODM model for HW design

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5.0
26 Jun 2026
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Pros

Awesome team - great culture. Very customer focused.

Cons

It's not a great fit for folks who are not aligned to the culture.

3.0
21 Jun 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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