Amazon vs AWS

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coderXer

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coderXer
Apr 6 9 Comments

I know people are hard on Amazon as being a bad employer, i work at AWS, i TBH could not relate to anything what people say here. Great people, great work, okish work life balance.. Could this be that Amazon and AWS are very different in culture? I have attached the poll :)

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  • Zoom
    no932z

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    no932z
    you're in europe... thats why
    Apr 6 0
  • New
    Sprintd

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    Sprintd
    AWS and CDO are certainly different beasts.

    Having spent time working in both, I feel CDO has worse WLB because of added pressure to perform.

    Critics for CDO offerings are every day people (your friends, family, neighbors, etc). When they are not happy, they are not hesitant to say so in any way they want…. “this product ruined my life” “my wife left me because of X” “my Alexa device was hacked and all my finances are exposed to the world”

    This type of feedback has immediate repercussions on the team that owns the product. It causes chaos, high Ops, context switching, etc, etc.

    AWS doesn’t deal with that type of stuff as frequently. Enterprise customers are more polite, forgiving to an extent, and AWS has a decent process in place to ensure customers are providing their feedback and requests to dedicated account managers.
    Apr 6 1
    • Amazon
      shoshnebut

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      shoshnebut
      This actually makes a lot of sense! I’ve worked with enterprise customers most of my career so coming to AWS (as a TAM in ES) wasn’t much different. Yeah our customers get upset when stuff breaks, but you’re right, they’re more polite and it’s not personal like CDO.
      Apr 6
  • Amazon
    hNyg33

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    hNyg33
    Plz plz plz split off from rest of Amazon…AWS is better in all regards
    Apr 6 0
  • Amazon
    shoshnebut

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    shoshnebut
    They are vastly different and a split from retail would make us all rich
    Apr 6 0
  • Google
    plop32

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    plop32
    Know lots of EMEA people at AWS that love it. Different ballgame…. Also way less comp
    Apr 6 0