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Stepping Stone (Bad Culture!) - Data Center Engineering Operations Technician Amazon Web Services Employee Review

1.0
23 Mar 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Supplied work clothes. Compressed schedule. 3-4 day work weeks.

Cons

They are not forthcoming with expectations in the interview. Job responsibilities in actuality were being a janitor/plumber/electrician/mechanic with too much janitor work. Taking out trash/sweeping/mopping. The onboarding was a joke, I did not meet my manager for the first few days. They made it clear from the beginning you do not matter to them. Management makes the job way too difficult for what it really is. They think it is fast paced and it is not. Sink or swim attitude from them. Was told by management they want you to be stressed. You are on your own for training. Management not open for innovative ideas for making the job easier. Toxic office environment and they blatantly tell you that you are in competition with the rest of your coworkers which leads to backstabbing. They tell you that you only have a few years in the EOT position and you must move up or move out. It is a good stepping stone to get into the data center industry. I quit to go to a different data center company and the culture difference is night and day. This is a last resort company to get in the data center roles!

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5.0
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Pros

Awesome team - great culture. Very customer focused.

Cons

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3.0
21 Jun 2026
Recommend
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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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