Amazon

I get asked all the time if my fellow software engineers should work at Amazon. I tell them, if you know you want to try, then please try.

Some people shy away from big conglomerate tech, and that's perfectly okay too! If you're curious about it, then you've got to see for yourself.

I had experiences of growth here about tech and about Amazon tech that was great. I don't think I could have achieved to where I am without Amazon (but that could also be the same for literally any other company out of university).

• Design Reviews involve scaling and large ambiguous moving components (a learning experience)
• Exposure to Amazon as a whole business. You have the opportunity to learn the retail and AWS side of Amazon, which is kinda interesting
• I think you'll find a variety of kinds of people you'll work with. People from different geographical locations and cultures. Also interesting

Something I curse myself for when working at Amazon is being within the Amazon programming ecosystem. It is true you deal with Amazon-specific tooling, and thus it is harder to have that knowledge transfer to different systems used by different companies. I'd say the tooling is based off of existing tools, but specialized for mass consumption within Amazon. Amazon-specific tooling hides away all the nitty-gritty and sterilizes the development environment to the point that it takes extra learning to adapt to more stock industry offerings.