Amazon

I worked with many international companies, and all of them have some form of culture codes or leadership principles. However, it is only Amazon that I found living the culture code, or what is called Leadership Principles (LPs).

LPs are part of everyday conversation inside the organization and are a foundation of execution.

I met several Amazonians during my first days, and it felt that all of them had taken enough dose of the culture firehose.

Of course, being a technology leader is another big plus.

Finally, I'm always surrounded by more intelligent people who made every day a learning day for me, or in an Amazonian way: day one!

Sometimes, not much thinking is put into your onboarding buddy. But you can work around this by expanding your network beyond your buddy.

Also, work-life balance seems to be an issue at Amazon.