Amazon

• Some pockets of teams have excellent environments.
• Benefits of a large company.
• Internal tooling.
• Learning events and resources (if you can find them).

Promotions to senior levels are still largely driven by org politics.

Managers are poorly trained, with little data-driven resources or support.

Standards are slipping for new employees, with very little formal training support.

There is a lot of bloat and growth in middle management.

Slowdowns result from too much separation into cross-team "coop-tetion" and "analysis paralysis" from a lack of common behavioral data or metrics tooling.

There is increased siloing and a lack of investment in common platform or tool standards.

There is a decrease in standards and deprecation of past reliable tools for ones with prettier UX but less functionality.

The Day 2 malaise is sinking in, and all the penalties and costs are coming due for not robustly investing in common AWS-wide platforms and standards, as Retail Amazon did a decade-plus ago.

Also, crucially, invest in bottom-up, metrics-driven management training and coaching, as Google did. Connections survey questions should be democratically shared, like the internal Tech Survey.