Amazon

Stocks are going up, which is good. There's lots of potential to continue growing. Lots of smart and experienced people to learn from. Get to work with very large-scale distributed systems that handle millions of TPS. Over time, I learned the skill to work fast and efficiently due to pressure and priorities. If picking a team that's internal-facing (like People/Accounting tech) or a brand-new team, life would be easier.

Avoid teams that have a heavy operational load, such as on-call. Constantly getting paged is stressful.

Avoid small teams.

Avoid teams that don't have a lot of business-driven projects, because you won't get to code as much, which is essential to push your SDE promotion forward.

Always have a sense that teams over-commit to things, which puts pressure on teams to work faster/deliver more.

Not often, but once in a while, you'll see peers getting piped, particularly in teams based in Seattle.