Amazon

The Amazon Leadership Principles are real; that's not marketing.

You have lots of opportunities to move laterally to other companies/teams under the Amazon umbrella; they are totally different companies inside the same holding.

People are deeply technical and proficient in what they do; there's a lot of opportunities to learn.

Excellent work/life balance (because you manage it).

Strong focus on information security.

Very diverse.

Becoming too sales-obsessed.

Chaotic information management (if you do not navigate well companies with a fluid governance model, it might not be a good fit for you).

The promotion process is very subjective; we have seen people leaving AWS to come back an year later to work around the promotion process.

1. Run Leadership Principles refreshers twice a year, especially for higher leadership, people in sales, and for executives coming from less customer-obsessed companies.

2. Create a mechanism for people to provide anonymous and transparent feedback about higher management (a Glassdoor for higher management, accessible to all employees).

3. Create a mechanism to make the promotion process less subjective.