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Great company, slow promotions when entering at entry level positions

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AWS is an awesome company to work for, my only issue is the process to get promoted and transfer to other departments. If you can enter the company at a high level position you're good to go! Otherwise, it's going to take a ton of work for you to get promoted internally because they would rather hire someone externally.

Pros

Great benefits, work/life balance, salary depending on department

Cons

Promotions are long difficult processes
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Overall very good but some micro mgt practices showing.

Good place to work overall and there is opportunity to advance but you have to go that extra mile and then some. Customer service roles are good here compared to most on the market. Good staff and mgt.
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Ambiente de trabajo estresante

En bill run El trabajo se convierte sumamente estresante. La empresa no tiene organización y prácticamente no hay soporte o ayuda. Así que todo depende de estudiar sobre AWS y ser extremadamente organizado.El salario no es muy bueno pero no es de los peores, prácticamente el único beneficio es la oportunidad de crecer dentro de AWS o Amazon.

Pros

Seguro médico, oportunidad de crecer

Cons

Falta organización y soporte, salario bajo
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Great Place to work if you can function independently

Every team on AWS is different, no way to know one team from another. With AWS there’s a lot of control between directors so it just depends on who you work for. My team is very remote friendly but with that you have to learn to figure things out on your own and manage training yourself which can cause some issues. Overall a great company and wonderful leadership but very very fast moving and sometimes working with too many green new employees.
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Need to manage your WLB

Good compensation above market payOn-call, operational cycles need to be accounted for.Too many processes and loops to get things done.Leadership principles exaggerated.
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Buono stipendio ma poca collaborazione

Buon stipendio ma sei lasciato praticamente solo e la documentazione é poco chiara. Mancano reali soluzioni di business e bisogna gestire un complesso ecosistema di partner, servizi, ecc. Purtroppo, sebbene predichino di prediligere i risultati di lungo termine, c'è una forte pressione sui risultati a breve termine, anche se con garbo e rispetto.
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Smart and good people

Most People are good. You will get 1-2 people around you not good. There is competition between team like pro serve and solution Architects. They don't share much and even sometime not help is there is no sow then pro serve will not help you as a solution architect to the customer. You have to struggle talk to many people to get your answer to customer questions. Also many people will try to show off sometime. And you have to find your way to struggle and proceed. Work life balance is not that good.
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Great place to work

Working for AWS is great, very inclusive and diverse. Working in a data centre you meet lots of interesting people and new skills. Some of the work can be a little repetitive but career progression opportunities are excellent.

Pros

salary, work hours, people

Cons

repetetive tasks, not technical / hands on
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Smart people, but difficult process

Many smark people.but there is no process amd standard.Work and life balance is good. Eaqual relationship. Salary does not increase for exsting employees.
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Productive lord of learning

The promotion process needs improvementYou get exposure to many different areas of ITYou can move around into any roleEveryone in aws is there to help you succeedYou have to network and work with othersVery academic , exams and learning is criticalIt's a competitive environment

Pros

Lots to learn and get alot of help

Cons

Demanding and everyone is smarter
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Job growth, but have to slog through politics

AWS has great benefits and the like. However landing in the wrong team with the wrong management will provide stress and inconveniences. You will most likely have to do more than whats given to you and any qualms will be met with disregarding how you feel.
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Lots of room to grow

Job was great! Hours were great! Work life balance was spectacular. Had colleagues that were very helpful and taught me a lot of information! Management was also great!
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Good place to start if you have no other options and love living paycheck to paycheck

If there are no other places that will take you then maybe start here. It puts food on the table but living paycheck to paycheck coming out of college is horrible.With inflation rates at an all time high and rent just skyrocketing, good luck making it with this company. I have been here 2 years and I have coworkers that are a level under me coming in and making more than me as well as contractors that do the same thing as me that are not even employed by the company.Compensation at the beginning of the year is horrible unless you are among the top 3-5 people in the cluster of around 100-150. You get maybe a $1 raise for all your hard work... I started here at $27.50 right out of college and I am now making $29.04 two years later...Moving on from that, the management, oh my, the management is horrible. They do not care about you and label as just another number. If you want to advance well then you better know somebody high up in order to get promoted or be within that top 1%. They say they offer advancement opportunities and they do but good luck getting there. The people that vote this company up are just the ones that suck up to the managers or get handed everything that they want in life while the hard working people get stepped on.

Pros

A paycheck

Cons

- Underpaid, - Advancement is almost non-existent unless you know somebody, - Underpaid, - Just another cog in the machine, - Over worked, - Underpaid, - Barely make enough to survive, - Terrible compensation unless you are the 1%, - Oh, and underpaid
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Not Great

AWS is a serious meat grinder. Burn and churn. Even worse if you are a woman and/or minority. There are pockets within the organization which are amazing, but for the most part there are mid managers who are sneaky, deceptive and lying snakes.
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Fast paced and lots to learn.

I want to make sure I mentioned a disclaimer before my review - much of your experience will vary from team to team and manager to manager. For me and my colleagues, AWS is extremely fast paced. The general expectation is that there will be very little handholding despite a steep learning curve. Getting used to AWS from another company or college while also learning your new job responsibilities amid rampant turnover and without adequate support is a harsh environment to endure. That being said, if you can set boundaries early, learn what the priorities are of your team, and can communicate your needs and questions clearly, you can establish yourself and overcome the overwhelming speed of projects even as a new hire. As another review mentioned, mistakes are tolerated, but not ignorance. You cannot make blind decisions for the sake of speed, but you don't always need to know everything before making a decision. Learning what to prioritize to make a sound decision quickly is a skill you will see a lot of benefit from (and one you'll exercise a lot here). Overall, my experience is that every day there's a learning curve, a new problem to solve or task that needs to be completed that I haven't done before. Not all of those new problems are exciting, but I understand my products, customers, and the moving parts in between a little bit more with each new challenge. That's a lot of words for "You learn a LOT here." Just be sure that you don't forget what you WANT to learn and what skills YOU want to sharpen. Your time is valuable and what you spend it on is the most important - 

Pros

Opportunity to influence processes and development on a large scale regardless of level, a generally big emphasis on D&I, your feedback is asked for daily on all kinds of important and relevant topics, pay is great, flexible work schedule, flexible work location, frequent promotions, subsidized transit costs, various discounts and airline benefits, diverse backgrounds

Cons

Poor documentation, lack of processes, lack of job related training, high employee turnover (lose historical knowledge and expertise), unclear role expectations and responsibilities, steep learning curve, supersonic pace, rare proactive support (minimum onboarding), many redundant tools, PIPs can block a team transfer and if you quit while PIPed you can never join any amazon team again
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Wild selva

Poor management In general. The managers are also overloaded. The ultra feminism is just crazy and out of sense. Most of the workers are overwhelmed and a few living the great life.
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Great for early career devlopment

AWS offers many career options. Not much clarity from management as they rotate so frequently. Positive work environment. Pay could be better but not the worst. Overall positive place to work.
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The Good and the BAD of any company

Depends on your manager and team. Pick wisely. Vouch for your self, promotions come to those who speak up versus actual technical knowledge. Be good but make sure you talk about how good you are.

Pros

Supporting Team

Cons

Lack of Transparency from management
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Great place to work

I would suggest aws to anyone who would like to work in.Great work environment , competitive and challenging.ProsBenefitsConsSometimes manager are very pushy!
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Great place to propel your cloud career

Smart team membersSupportive managementCareer growth opportunitiesYou will be pulled into different types of engagements, both internal & external, depending on your team. But these experiences help build your cloud & client relationship skills
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Had to be the work life balance. Really was working more than having the balance of home life.

A lot of AWS priorities were set aside with new management. Things that were a priority when I started with the company were changing with each management change. You just have to make sure to succeed with changing like that. It has to be a constant focus on going forward seamlessly.

Pros

3 days off, 4 days on

Cons

Working every weekend.
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