Amazon

If you can find a good team, you will enjoy your experience at Amazon. Amazon is very team-dependent, and the majority of teams aren't that great. If you find a good team, stay there as long as you can!

You will get:

• Good career growth if you are an ambitious go-getter
• Growing a thicker skin by working in a tougher environment
• Working alongside very talented engineers
• If your management is good, you will value your leadership
• The Leadership Principles really do work and provide you a good base on which to operate from

If you are not lucky enough to find one of the good teams, expect the following:

• Cutthroat culture, lots of slave driving.
• Feeling like your peers are your competitors instead of allies.
• Lagging compensation after promotions.
• On-call hell where you will have many sleepless nights.
• Tons of tech debt; you will need to manage it while delivering features.
• Lots of work, huge workload, and you will feel as though you are drowning.

Treat people better and stop slave-driving so much. Engineers will continue to leave.