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Leadership principles, when convenient - Senior Solutions Architect Amazon Web Services Employee Review

2.0
Sep 20, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Overall, the training and message you get during onboarding is pretty inclusive. But that's where it ends.

Cons

The leaders at Amazon don't understand leadership principles at all. They consistently and wholeheartedly twist whatever narrative they need to fit whatever leadership principle they want. I was told disagree and commit means disagreeing until the crowd makes a decision and then committing to that decision. . . Beyond that there's no escalation for a bad manager or process because the people you're supposed to escalate to are invested in making sure that manager or process is painted in favorable light more so than the company overall benefits.

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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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