Stressful foot in the door - Data Center Operations Technician Amazon Employee Review

3.0
24 Sept 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Pay, benefits, AWS on your resume, tech job that gives you access to a little bit of a lot of things datacenter related, growth means a bunch of people get promoted so you might eventually.

Cons

Favoritism in promoting, the datacenter is probably where you'd put a prisoner if you wanted them to break without any hands-on torture, the day-to-day has been tuned to the point of abuse (just work faster, perpetually expanding responsibilities without any recognition/compensation), 90% of the job is swapping parts like a monkey, so it's super lame. Everyone who works there wants to escape but has yet to find something better.

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5.0
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Pros

Cross training that helps for faster growth and more experience.

Cons

Sometimes you gotta hurry and find equipment or pit equipment before others snag them and leave you with the “bad” ones. That take forever to get repaired.

5.0
10 Jan 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Really smart people, a lot of opportunity for growth, always encouraged to be innovative, think big, and create something new. Competitive salary and benefits with other major tech companies. 100% self motivating work environment. No dress code and 4 legged friends are welcome.

Cons

You have to be self motivated. NO ONE will hold your hand and tell you that you're doing a great job. If you need constant affirmations from management, this company isn't for you.

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