Amazon

It is highly dependent on which team or organization you land in. Below is if you are on the right team:

• Access to learn great new things.
• Build meaningful services at a large scale.
• Lots of internal knowledge that is a great resource.
• Helpful culture within most teams.
• You can move up if you are on the right team with good management.

If you are on the wrong team:

• Pettiness from leaders leads to a bad time.
• Most L7/L8s are rarely technical, except maybe in AWS service teams, yet they weigh in on technical decisions.
• Leadership is largely out of touch with what it takes to build these days.
• A cycle of how to measure productivity based on who is in charge (such as AI token usage and CR counts being dumb) leads to waste.
• Newer leaders at the company (under six years) just plain don't get it and have a Day 2 mentality.
• Racism is prevalent in many orgs, but the company ignores it.

You have too many L7/L8s who are slowing down the company and bringing in a Day 2 mentality. Purge middle management. The TPM role makes it harder to build, so get rid of it.