Amazon

This was my first job out of college. Amazon often takes newer people and helps them grow.

I learned way more in my first few years on the job than in school.

Decent wage and benefits.

There are a lot of smart people in AWS.

Not a lot of vacation time.

There are periods during the year where you feel very overworked.

On-call can be a nuisance to your personal life depending on the team and management priorities.

Continue to focus on making on-call as non-intrusive as possible. Give us more vacation.

It's kind of crazy how you can be hired in as an SDE 3 or Principal based off of an hour and a half of interviews, while the internal bar for being promoted is extremely high. I'd recommend changing that if you value long-term retention of SDE 2s.