Amazon

Really liked the LP culture. The team was very driven and execution-oriented.

Extremely high operations bar, lots to learn on how to do things right.

Specifically to my org: tons of bureaucracy, politics, and being fake. Excessive planning got in the way of getting products to customers and iterating on feedback.

Life/work balance was pretty terrible. As a manager living outside the US and working directly with the West Coast, I worked most days from 9 am to 9 pm. Thankfully, I was WFH during most of it due to COVID, but now the company is implementing RTO 3 days/week, so that'll take a turn for the worse for many people in similar situations.

To become "The World's Best Employer," you have to invest in employees, not lay off top-tier performers to appease the market.