Amazon Web Services reviews

You will be immersed in the Leadership Principles, which will be mercilessly used against you, or members of your team who are independent thinkers, or who have competence built outside of Amazon. Amazon frequently under-hire, in that they offer you a role beneath what you are capable of performing. Don't take such an offer, as you won't be able to advance quickly. It will take 2 years to demonstrate you can operate at the level you've been hired into, then you might be considered for a promotion. This can be soul destroying when you see the performance of those around you who were offered roles at a higher level. Everything in your role will revolve around what a L8 or higher in the US thinks about you and your performance. Suck up, or get out.

Unprofessional environment; Gaslightning as a "prefered" way to deal with a customer; Heavily mysogonist culture (when you see that AWS describes women as minority - believe it); Zero support, extremely vicious and competitve team, led by a narcistic manager. Genuinly a toxic culture which you want to avoid. Aside from that: very poor health insurance cover, almost laughable employee support, mental health is dealt with by listening to 1h workshop where a fellow employee tells you to breathe and see love. Poor benefits in general and definitely unbearable work culture