When you say data teams do you mean data engineering or data analysts (business intelligence) because they are two separate areas at the company. I’m in BI and I think the WLB is fantastic - never really have to work after hours or on weekends.
Data Engineering teams
Data engineering depends on which team you're assigned to, but probably mediocre at best, if you're disciplined. I don't think we're ever discouraged from taking PTO but that work will still be there when you get back. When you're on call, you absolutely will be working until 7 then getting paged at 3 AM because someone lied about testing their code before committing to production. We're currently working on reassigning Pagerduty to teams for the code they produce so hopefully soon other people will be waking up to fix their own code. If you want to be a data engineer, we need more hands. Just don't expect any glory.
Its not bad at all
That’s good to hear