Amazon

Good opportunities to work on various stacks and problem spaces.

Usually good engineer peers to work with and learn from.

Pay is actually pretty amazing if you're a new hire (2022 Q1 and onwards) - insulting if you're pre-TC bump.

Can "own" as much as you push for, usually.

Leadership and management is usually a crap shoot. Decent managers are rare and usually are day 2+ mentality coasters and incompetent. Promotions at Amazon are advertised as you "own" it, but in reality, they depend entirely on your manager giving a damn and batting for you.

Tech stacks on most retail teams are uninspiring, and pushing for new approaches is somewhat of an uphill battle.

Start aggressively pip-ing SDMs. Too many SDMs are complacent and incompetent at their jobs, which in turn breeds more mediocrity and pushes away valuable talent.