Amazon

You work with really smart and hardworking people. There are so many projects going on all the time that it's never boring. There's always something to improve or learn more about.

Increasingly difficult to get promoted and raises stagnated, meaning no one wanted to take ownership because that just meant more work and stress for the same pay. A ton of projects get finished and then never get used or weren't actually useful in the end. Obviously, layoffs mean most people are stressed out.

You have to understand that without strong ownership from ICs, everyone just does work without any glue to stick it all together. Meaning, you need to have strong leaders running projects whose main focus is how the project or service will work in the larger ecosystem. In order to have ownership, people have to have a reason to put in the extra work, i.e., either promote sooner, or have a middle ground between SDE2 and SDE3 that people can go for.