Amazon

• Decent pay
• Learning opportunities
• Helpful team members
• AWS experience
• Good stock options

• Too much pressure from management on constant ETAs for tasks. They don’t understand an ETA is something that is supposed to be adjusted and take it as a hard deadline.
• Lots of ad hoc tasks all the time. It should be renamed from Amazon Inc to Adhoc Inc.
• Everybody is just after growth and promotion and cares about themselves rather than their first principle, which is customer obsession.
• Full RTO now, which is going to waste a lot of time in the office as their offices are not designed for coding work, sadly.
• Yes, good stock options, but it’s like a carrot hanging. Management knows this and will try to squeeze every bit out of you.
• Culture has gone downhill in recent years, and people just grind like anything.

They think they are gods, even though they make all stupid decisions all the time and won’t listen to anything. They send out useless surveys but never take any action, as they don’t even check those, I think.