Amazon

Salary well above industry average. I also find agile development practices, such as Scrum and continuous delivery, very motivating.

From the start, the recruiting process is deceitful. I was approached by the recruiter. I told her I am only interested if I could be placed in an intermediate but not beginner position. Instead of telling me I may not be qualified for an intermediate position, she signed me up for an SDE I anyway. I should have suspected it when my interview questions were standard algorithm/design questions that I could answer in my sleep. Then, I realized being SDE I was the least of my problems. I spend 80% of my time doing operational tasks and 20% on programming tasks. I am sucking at my job because I suck at operational tasks. Instead of testing me in computer science, they should test me how well I can follow a huge amount of trivial instructions. But there is no possibility of changing positions until I have been here for 1 year. One year does not sound that long, right? It has only been 4.5 months, and my blood pressure has already gone up. I can't quit my job either. I would have to pay back the relocation expenses, which they did not explicitly mention in my contract.

Understand who you are hiring.