Amazon

Love the culture. Love the immediate growth and responsibilities and ownership. Love my manager. Love my colleagues. Very fun environment, even when owning one of the most stressful products.

You will be doing a lot of DevOps work as a software engineer because:

A. Amazon is very frugal (even a little with your raises). B. It will teach you ownership of your code deployments.

CSTech is a little too much into the "customer obsession," which is good for some people, but if you cannot handle the stress and the constant busy on-call, then apply to AWS instead.

You will have on-call no matter what, though.

Each team (or group of sister teams) needs a DevOps engineer to provide pre-made solutions. You're wasting a lot of time recreating the wheel for each individual project just because you do not have turnkey environments that can simply be customized by DevOps before a project starts.

Place more emphasis on distinguishing between teams that have 10x more workload and capacity than some other teams.

When I see teams playing ping-pong all day in other "feature product teams" when our teams are drowning in work and deadlines, it's somewhat discouraging when the year goes by and the extremely frugal raises (if any) are equal across the board (yes, we share that information amongst us).