Amazon

• High pay
• Many global locations with opportunity to transfer
• Build at scale
• Fast interview turnaround time

"Pirate Ship" culture. Constant pressure, everything needs to be done tomorrow. Working long hours is normal. Working weekends is normal. Significant management in-group bias. Expected to cancel travel plans last minute if a co-worker gets sick.

Working your engineers very hard all the time may seem like a good idea in the short term, but long term, you're alienating and burning out your talent.

When I was there, I was constantly told that our department was low on headcount, so we all needed to take on more.

More projects, more on-calls, more meetings.

But less time to actually work.

The effect of this was more people leaving.