Amazon

If you luck out getting into an awesome team, AWS technical recognition, some areas are high growth. Amazon-only buildings could have bike lockers and showers with towels.

Frupidity/corner cutting:

Benefits/bonuses, workplace items, perks.

Culture:

High churn, disorganized management, lack of standards across teams, little to no promotion of work-life balance, no institutional support of outside activities/groups, outsourcing/poor-to-none of HR and benefits-related roles.

As examples:

• Stock bonus only 5% then 15% for 1st and 2nd year, and pre-fixed to dollar amount not shares.
• Focus on international hiring as those candidates are "cheaper" since less competition.
• No 401K matching benefit--it is a "bonus" that requires 2 years or all is forfeited.
• Health plans with too many loopholes for coverage.
• Moving bonus requires 2 years to keep.
• Cash bonuses also require 2 years.
• No workplace perks or general freebie items.
• Only get $100 per year discount on Amazon.

Not a compliment: "a large company with a startup feel." This means you have the worst habits of both.

From large companies: neglect of individual employees, politics between groups, outsourcing/international hiring focus to cut costs, and annoying cheapness about costs/benefits.

From startups: constantly growing technical debt, lack of best practice standards across groups, poorer work-life balance, and high churn.

Get actual HR/recruiter professionals so that honest assignment and accurate group descriptions actually happen for new hires.