Amazon

Especially in AWS, there are very few places where you get to engineer systems that work at such a high scale.

This presents a completely different tier of distributed system challenge.

I have always been able to set a reasonable work-life balance.

Right now, compensation is still primarily stock-based, and the current price is well below recent grant prices.

Most teams require an on-call rotation, which can be challenging.

Working with other teams to get on their roadmaps for an integration is sometimes hard.

Stop union busting. It makes the whole company look bad. Adapt and work with unions to make the fulfillment center side of business better. Also, stop selling data mining systems to cops. AWS makes so much money; we don't need evil business.