Amazon Data Engineer reviews

3.8

63% would recommend to a friend

(460 total reviews)
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Andrew Jassy

52% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

Data Engineer employees have rated Amazon with 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 460 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Data Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Amazon is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Data Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the IT industry (3.9 stars).

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460 reviews
3.0
Jun 11, 2026
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Pros

Nice people. Everyone was collaborative. Not the cut throat stories I had heard - it is a large org though, so each experience is different.

Cons

Too many internal tools. If you like to just write SQL, then this is a good role. If you like to do any actual engineering, then its not.

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