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Mind if I ask what team(s) you were on at Amazon? Looking to avoid the worst.

I’m starting to get the impression, though, that if I want to be happiest as a Big Tech Co. engineer, I really just need to work at Google.

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The teams in the relational databases organization were in a pretty terrible shape when I left - most of the higher management comes from IBM IIRC, and it's visible. The operations teams get the worst of it (unsurprisingly).

Also, caused by years of neglect and patchworks, whatever teams deal with basic infrastructure (DNS, load balancing, corporate infrastructure...). Though none of those are in Seattle anymore, IIRC.

From what I've heard, Facebook has the most chill culture out of the big three.

This is not what ive heard. Hours are worse at FB (esp. the cool infra) because of nebulous “impact” metrics than Google despite the nice perks.

Google is far better in this regard.

I heard FB is good as well, though I still don’t get why they need so many people to do what they do. Heck, even MS is probably better than Amazon. I delete all Amazon recruiter emails (of which I receive about 2 per week) as soon as they arrive.

"even MS is probably better than Amazon" - what makes you think so poorly of Microsoft?

You can tell them to stop contacting you and it works.

Not in my case. I’ve asked them numerous times to remove my email, it subsides for a while and then comes back at the same rate.

OK, it happened to me just now, two years after telling them to not contact me. But it was a different group, was gaming, now is AWS.

Wait till GDPR tell them you are in EU ;)

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