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pro and cons of working for AWS as a data engineer - Data Engineer II Amazon Web Services Employee Review

3.0
10 Apr 2026
Recommend
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Pros

All AWS services are available to you, and it's a fantastic location to work, learn from top-notch engineers, and gain amazing experience.

Cons

extremely unfavorable work-life balance. extremely difficult job; the management is solely concerned with the outcome. extremely stringent about your capacity to work independently, to the point where requesting a coworker for assistance could be interpreted as a sign that you are incapable of doing so. The atmosphere is quite stressful. Indian engineers are favored there.

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3.0
21 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Ambitious projects if you're in the right team. Typically great team-mates. Don't believe the memes, the ppl are not back stabbing jerks but are overall genuinely nice. Not constrained by budgets when building cool things. Tools while sometimes clunky are powerful.

Cons

Schizophrenic lack of focus, entire teams get split, merged and upended multiple times a quarter. Some product managers are disconnected from reality. It didn't use to be the case, the PM-Ts were previously top notch. You're pushed to vibe code everything. Established products with loyal customers are getting neglected. Newer VP level leaders don't seem to know what they are doing. Veteran OG VP level leaders are either leaving in droves or seem stressed or checked out.

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