Amazon

The people I work with are cool. Day-to-day activities are relatively easy for the money. A lot of things are very lax. Mask mandates were very loosely enforced and have been dropped. There was no peep from management about vaccination requirements. It's a great place to start a career, but I wouldn’t stay for longer than 5 years unless you fall in love with it.

Managers spend 40-50 hours a week behind closed doors in meetings. Most of the time, these meetings result in decisions that are either completely disconnected from the workers or just plain stupid. It’s all about metrics and red/green boxes being checked.

Constantly making “two-way door” decisions, which really just means we flip-flop constantly between opposite ends of the spectrum. The spectrum is between “dumb as hell” and “relatively effective”.

AWS is cheap as all get out. Their buildings leak all over the place, and equipment is not commissioned or tested properly before turning over to live services. This results in making EOTs (we are the maintenance guys) lives hell.

Promotions, raises, and pretty much anything else good are locked behind projects that are beyond the scope of your job. Nobody cares at all how good you are at your actual job, unless you do some major overtime on your own time and do other people’s jobs for them.