I don't doubt that you know specific people who are having the opposite experience - Amazon culture varies a lot based on which vp/director you work for. But your friends' experience isn't indicative of all tech employees.
For people reading these comments you need to understand these people who say it's blown out of wack and FUD (lmao no) it isn't. And typically the people who get themselves into positions where their job is butter at Amazon is because they threw a bodies on the fire to get there.
It's an awful company to work for if you're a deg. It's even worse if you're a warehouse employee.
When people go on the record stating they have to piss in Gatorade bottle because they don't get sufficient bathroom breaks it's not FUD it's a shitty employer. /Rant
I’m on-call at this moment too. Like I said previously, either there’s a concrete reasoning for this or it’s just plain elitism.
Is ~$145k TC bad to you?