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Amazon Data Engineer II reviews

3.8

69% would recommend to a friend

(1,209 total reviews)
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Andrew Jassy

57% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

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3.9

Compensation and benefits

3.9

Career opportunities

3.7

Diversity & inclusion

3.3

Culture & values

3.3

Senior management

3.2

Work/Life balance

Data Engineer II employees have rated Amazon with 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 1,209 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Data Engineer II professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Data Engineer II professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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1K reviews
2.0
May 19, 2020

Great company with zero work life balance.

Data engineer
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Pros

Great minds to work with Lot of opportunities to learn Good pay

Cons

1. Zero Work Life Balance 2. Not suitable for family folks/mothers since you are expected to work everyday including weekends

4.0
Apr 20, 2020

Like getting paid to get a masters degree

Data scientist
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Business Outlook

Pros

I worked for AWS Professional Services, the consulting arm of Amazon Web Services. * AWS invests a LOT in your education. 6 weeks of just onboarding, including AWS paying for certification training classes and certification exames * Access to internal AWS accounts makes it easy to experiment and learn * My coworkers were brilliant, and I learned a lot from them * Access to unique customer challenges and datasets * Pay was great, 30% higher than what I was making in my previous job * For a while, some of the travel is great. I got to visit a few cities around the U.S. and even travel internationally * Work-life balanced is manageable. Could be a lot better if there weren't so many time-sucking unnecessary internal processes, but it's not nearly as bad as Amazon's reputation if you google "Amazon work-life balance"

Cons

* Amazon is enormous, and as bureaucratic as you'd guess based on that size. I probably bookmarked 200 well-meaning internal sites / tools my first week. * Gender diversity was awful on my team. I think it was something like 80 employees, 3 women. * Travel in AWS Professional Services is a lot more manageable than at management consultancies, but it can still wear you down. I'd say on average I got about 10 days notice before traveling * Internal communication tools are awful. You have to use Amazon-created, kind-of-ok alternatives to the stack you'd use at a modern company. e.g. Amazon Chime instead of Slack, Microsoft Outlook instead of Google Calendar, etc.

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