GCP/Azure to Amazon/AWS - Happy with move?
May 2, 2021
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Those who moved from Google GCP team or MSFT Azure to take a role at AWS. Could you share your exp?
- Happy with move? Not happy? Why?
- What’s good?
- What’s not?
- Would you recommend?
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AWS is the market leader, but what does that translate to as an eng? Unrealistic expectations from management, being treated poorly, bad Dev tooling. Terrible ops.
I took AWS over GCP a while ago and am regretting it. Having AWS as a market leader means nothing as an eng. oh, and amazon is shit at promoting people or rewarding people.
Working at a non market leader doesn’t mean it’s worse. Sure even if GCP doesn’t supersede AWS, google still has a money machine (ads) and will be fine.
Avoid working here unless you're PE or higher.