What you were supposed to do was not go work at Amazon, just like plenty of us won't work for Facebook, etc. Amazon being a terrible place to work isn't something new or foreign to us SWEs. Hell, every time they tried to interview me they'd tell me about how AWS is "run like a startup" and has very little do with the rest of the company. That's telling right there.

Don't let them have our engineering talent even if they offer you the moon (like Brays $1mil/yr). They should be fighting to repair their reputation to even be able to hire SWEs/etc but because people pop out of College and want to go make $120k (or people who only care about their income and not ethics) they have no problem keeping that boat full of new blood.

I cannot fathom making $1m as a SWE over 5 years while the massive majority of my company are treated like cannon fodder and it's well known throughout.. oh, everywhere. It's really easy to quit and sound like a hero in that situation. You're not a hero. You were still part of the problem that we've known about for a long time.