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Deficient leadership, lack of organization, unrealistic expectations - Software Development Manager Amazon Web Services Employee Review

3.0
Aug 31, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Opportunity to work with great and very inteligent people - for the most part - , cutting edge technology and get to know the internals of AWS services. Everyone has an enormous impact from day one.

Cons

I am not sure if it's Amazon, AWS or only this organization but there was a lot of chaos. A complete lack of direction from leadership. As a manager I had to spend a lot of time building unrealistic plans to satisfy the VP and then had to redo them in many opportunities to adjust to the real schedule. The expectations are completely unrealistic, there is no plan. If someone asks you to do something they want it for yesterday. At first hours were pretty much normal but then I changed manager and ended up working non-stop including weekends to satisfy requirements from my manager that worked non-stop as if that was the only thing that existed. In my opinion Amazon - or at least this org -is not a company for moms or people that have other interests or responsibilities outside work.

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Cons

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Pros

Amazing work Life balance. Like anywhere else, this is going to depend a lot on your manager in the territory that you receive. However, I’ve noticed that in the Austin office, working 30 to 40 hour weeks is the standard and I don’t know anyone who works over 40 hours a week on a consistent basis. Obviously, if there’s a certain big deal, you’re trying to push over the edge you might need to every once in a while, but for the most part, there’s a ton of flexibility on the time that we come into the office and leave.

Cons

A lot of people are leaving right now because the compensation structure is not always super clear and usually we are given our quotas after the quarter is actually over. Also, there is no continuity with customers. You may work on any given relationship with a customer for one to two years and then right before you get a deal to close, they move that customer out of your territory. Also, there is no path to increasing your level. In other parts of the company, it is very typical to move from a four to a five in two years. In the sales order, it takes 4 to 6 years of AWS experience. Even if you have prior sales experience. For this reason, a lot of people try to boomerang because it seems like that’s the only way to promote.

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