Best place to learn - competitive place to work - Cloud Architect Amazon Employee Review

1.0
Jul 20, 2021
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Pros

Highly dynamic organization due to growing cloud business. You will find highly motivated and competitive engineers and working environment. The company expects to give you your sweat and blood in return for a decent pay. Company also expects you to embrace its leadership principles in full from which you can learn a great deal - especially about frugality and customer obsession. Good place to learn and excel yourself.

Cons

Long working hours with decent stock options. Work life balance is a myth here although managers try hard to show they exist but so much additional task other than projects are assigned that you will have to work additional hrs. You are basically a figure which can be replaced. I never saw and still do not see any team work except during a project. Some Practice Managers are very quick to put blame on their employees especially in DACH region. Expect no pay raises for at least 2 yrs. Frugality principles are used basically to not give any kind of perks (expect getting 20-30 Euro as Christmas gift for the work you did for this organization which is really a shame).

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

You have to be self motivated. NO ONE will hold your hand and tell you that you're doing a great job. If you need constant affirmations from management, this company isn't for you.

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