$125,836 per year
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Meets national average
Salary estimated from 8 employees, users, and past and present job advertisements on Indeed in the past 36 months.Last updated: July 13, 2021
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Common benefits at Amazon.com
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Financial perks
- Employee discount
Insurance
- Health insurance
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- Flexible schedule
- Retirement plan
- Paid time off
Reviews about Pay & Benefits for Data Engineer in Amazon.com
Not worth the craziness, at least doing I.T. support for them!
Data Center Support Engineer (Current Employee) - Reston, VA - October 26, 2020
Like many people, I accepted a job at Amazon because COVID caused my previous employer to almost go under and to do mass layoffs. Amazon has been grabbing up a lot of talent that left these smaller companies during the pandemic, since they're in such a good position to benefit financially from all of it.The reality though? Amazon's rapid shift to allowing almost everyone to work from home meant they had to re-purpose all of the "local I.T." staff as phone and chat help desk people. The current thinking in the company is that they'll never go back to the old business model of in person walk up support for computer issues. That's had a lot of side effects, including essentially dismantling the former audio-visual department and trying to cross-train them on I.T. support while I.T. learns how to do their jobs.It feels like procedures and processes change almost weekly, so you're often expected to review document daily at the start of your shift doing support, in case they changed something critical to how you provide that support. Combined with so many proprietary support tools (because Amazon really likes to build its own solutions rather than adopting industry standards sold by competitors), it can literally make one's head hurt trying to get a handle on everything and keep up with it. Meanwhile, the "numbers" people are constantly adopting more "metrics" and rules they want to apply to maximize efficiency.If you're someone who was only looking for a dead-end help-desk job to do for a year or two, Amazon might seem tempting. They offer good health insurance benefits and -
Pros
Pay and benefits are competitive
Cons
Lots of talk about work/life balance that isn't really true. Super stressful.
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Great Company to work.
Data Engineer (Former Employee) - King County, WA - March 25, 2018
Excellent environment to work in. Associates are eager to help, and management recognizes success regularly. Generous compensation structure rewards hard work
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Data Centre Engineer (Current Employee) - Dublin - December 8, 2016
Do not feel comfortable saying anything due to the fact this will be public knowledge and I think its unfair due to the fact they are my current employer
Pros
Benefits/Full Time Permanent
Cons
Management/ Little or no advancement
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