Amazon

Interesting work with smart and talented people.

Great pay.

Work from home on occasion.

The bias for action company principle outweighs the others.

This result is the creation of more value at the expense of letting existing value decay; this translates to a legacy code base.

It results in people having been there the longest being the sole proprietors of the intellectual property being developed there. The rest of us get to work without much hope for growth in the short term.

This is especially exacerbated by the completely custom systems there. The learning curve is steep.

There are those of us (developers) who don't mind working hard. TPMs should not be allowed to advance to manage developers. Their bias for action will always trump a developer's ability to keep our systems maintained smoothly without the need for big, expensive rewrites every 2-5 years. I know that top management looks for ways to bring down operating costs, and this is a way. It would also avoid a lot of employee turnover and frustration.