Amazon

• Learn fast.
• Trial by fire.
• Fast SDE2 promo.
• Top pay for Canadians.
• Scale you can't find at any other Canadian company.

• Managers are hit or miss; it's hard to tell if they are any good until it's too late.
• Amazon LPs are cool in concept, but are misused to take as many shortcuts as possible, e.g., bias for action and deliver results often matter way more than insisting on high standards or deep dive.
• There is too much bureaucracy, too many processes, and no clear ownership. You require escalations for basically everything since teams only look out for their own KPIs, not for the rest of the org.

Fire more non-technical engineering managers, promote senior engineers to engineering managers, and require them to continue to code and be on call.