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      Great for scale, bad for self-respect - Senior Software Engineer Amazon Web Services Employee Review

      3.0
      Oct 10, 2025
      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      - Incredible pace for such a big company - Impact on the big (in some aspects biggest in the world) scale: domain, technical, people etc - Tons of opportunities to grow and deliver - Pay above the market

      Cons

      - Agressive and pushy culture: stack ranking, PIP and such - Very top-down: almost no chances to drive own activity - Toxic leadership: depends on the org and team, but most of them are - RTO5

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      5.0
      May 27, 2026
      Paralegal/legal assistant
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Great job. I’ve learned so much it is just hard with 5 day rto

      Cons

      The 5 day RTO mandate

      3.0
      Jun 21, 2026
      Software development manager
      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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