What People Say About Working in AWS

Amazon Web Services or AWS is Amazon’s very own powerful cloud computing platform. It is said to be the platform that made cloud-computing mainstream, even though it was SalesForce who first brought it to the forefront. However, success requires its own share of sacrifices too. And basically, it’s the work culture that has suffered en route to its massive cloud computing dominance.

According to Business Insider, Gartner’s analyst Lydia Leong has best summed up AWS’s work culture when she said, “Amazon is not a place of whimsy or fun. Amazon is a culture of self-driven workaholics.” Let’s see what those directly working in AWS has to say…

AWS Quotes

“AWS management invented a new industry, built a business from zero to billions of dollars, are much ahead of any other cloud provider, shipping multiple features every day. They must be good :)” — Anonymous

“Working at AWS gives you the satisfaction of working with a leading cloud provider which is so much ahead of other cloud providers. It feels great when you see that other groundbreaking enterprises/startups are using your platform to build upon their critical systems.” — Manoj Kumar, Software Engineer at AWS Elasticache

“It is uplifting and sometimes disappointing and sometimes overwhelming. It grows you and challenges you and humbles you and sometimes knocks you on your ass. It is not for everyone. :)” — Matt Walters, Software Development Manager at Amazon RDS

“One of my friends who was an SDE (Software Development Engineer) had the most mundane tasks ever. He actually quit as well and went to work somewhere for a little less money, but doing some far more rewarding work.” — Former AWS engineer

“Worse still is the politics. When you hire a bunch of smart, aggressive people, and put them in an environment of outsized expectations, throw in a bunch of re-orgs and changing management, and sprinkle with uncertainty and constantly changing priorities, you inevitably get people back stabbing each other and throwing others under the bus to appear smarter and more worthy of promotion.” — Glassdoor

“Internal Documentation is messy. It’s being worked on, but it’s hard to search and find relevant information. I feel sometimes that too much is kept secret, but there is no pretense with it as that is made clear to customers and they’re fine with it. Though, sometimes it would be easier to explain why something broke for a customer if I could share additional details.

Sometimes, communication between internal teams and support can suffer from interpretation issues and lag. Also, the mechanism by working in that manner is a chore since due to switchover.” — Glassdoor

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