Amazon

• Lots of benefits (PTO, Health, etc.) and a solid RRSP match (DPSP).

• Pay is quite good (RSUs, base, raises, etc.).

• Unique challenges requiring thinking outside of the box. Often times there is no "correct" answer, and you need to come up with the best solution for the time that offers flexibility.

• Amazon is very data-driven, which makes promotions a lot more straightforward and offers a lot of area for growth.

Work-life balance can be hard (on-call & 5-day RTO).

Amazon is an international company. Sometimes you will need to collaborate with sister teams in another time zone. With 5-day RTO, you often need to consider their working hours, as there are a lot fewer people willing to work outside of their normally scheduled hours now.

KPIs can create conflicts of interest. Often, you are not incentivized to help other engineers deliver, as this metric will not be trackable. In addition, a sister team may de-prioritize tasks you depend on because it doesn't assist their metrics; however, you may depend on it for your metrics.

Walk back 5-day RTO. Amazon is an international company with customers and employees around the world. A 4-day RTO would offer employees a little more flexibility in pushing their hours around to accommodate those in other locations and time zones.

Finally, shout-outs appear underutilized. Employees should have reminders to create shout-outs (e.g., bi-weekly, daily survey) to create a paper trail of engineers being force multipliers, which can be a KPI that isn't currently tracked via code/ticket metrics.