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What a SDE at Amazon went through - Software Development Engineer Amazon Web Services Employee Review

2.0
Dec 14, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

As a fresher you can learn a lot. They would assign you tasks which are doable by a fresher but there wouldn't be anyone to explain you about the details of the task in case you don't understand.

Cons

Managers seems to be good for the first 6 months, post 6 months they start to criticize you, they wouldn't give you time to understand a problem. They just pass statements like this is not a right career choice for you. They would say you are doing great for few weeks, all of a sudden one day they would be like you're too bad at your job. They wouldn't give you tasks related to your main project, but suddenly they would put you in PIP and would ask us to do tasks related to your main project which we might have never touched.

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5.0
Jun 22, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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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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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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