Amazon

AWS is a good place to get experience working on large systems. Standards for scalability and availability are high. The scope is large, and it’s easy to find interesting technical challenges if you’re willing to change teams.

AWS generally doesn’t care about CX quality or creating products that are a joy to use — if it scales, it ships.

They’ll also routinely sacrifice operational posture to make deadlines.

DevOps culture can make this tendency a real pain as you drown in ops while clueless PMs keep pestering weak SDMs for new features.

Care about CX (UIs matter, customer joy/pain matters).

Stop sacrificing ops posture for time to market — the industry is maturing, and first to market no longer matters as much.

Pay market wages / give decent raises outside of promo cycles.