Amazon

Compensation is good. The scale creates interesting problems to solve, and the leadership principles are sound tools for thinking about how to work well.

The ASP (student hiring program) job placement process fails to deliver critical information (like office address, WFH status) in time for employees to make long-term housing decisions. I was hired into a large-scale reorganization, and this process wasted weeks of my developer time. This could probably have been managed better.

Resources for onboarding to my current project are inadequate (documentation, roadmaps, or tickets don't exist; access to experienced developers is rare; code reviews do not provide any meaningful feedback). As a result, most development and troubleshooting are a deep dive, and learning is largely trial and error. This is fine, but an inefficient use of my time.

Provide clear information in advance on where and how an employee will work. Improve documentation and feedback/review systems. It costs more to fix code than to write it.