Amazon

For the most part, there are data-driven decisions, scale unlike almost anywhere else, and access to a ton of interesting tech. If you are working for good leaders, it's a safe place to learn: tolerance for risk, room to innovate, and lots of resources to leverage. Compensation is high for the industry—much better than startup or mid-sized companies—and the compensation is leveled across the company, which is controlled by the compensation team rather than by engineering leadership, which can be both a pro and a con. Most of the senior leaders in AWS are incredibly smart.

It is a large company where they have pushed apart the tech and product leadership so that escalations have to go up to L8 or L10 for resolution.

There are some toxic leaders, so life is highly dependent on your leadership chain. You should get to know your potential leader or skip-level manager if you can before joining or moving.

Amazon has moved to non-hybrid, which means working in the office five days a week, though some teams and locations have more flexibility than others.

Compensation is high for the industry, but on the low side for big tech. They have been ratcheting down the compensation structure, though so has everyone in big tech post-COVID.