Only six weeks of paid parental leave?
I would absolutely be willing to pay more for AWS if I knew that amount was going to treating the poor folks who built it all better.
I used to work in one of the DB services and we used to get 20+ pages (sev2) every day. Due to insane amount of pages every day, we used to have daily on-call rotations.
15 PTO days. 6 personal days
Yes I work at AWS. I’m never on call and I haven’t worked for more than 40 hours unless I’m learning something new trying to figure out. I control my own calendar and I manage expectations for my projects.
I do work in ProServe though…
Besides, I purposefully put myself in a position that I wouldn’t have to relocate to a high cost of living area. I knew that Azure, AWS, and GCP had a Professional Services department that may require a lot of travel. But no relocation, no on call, etc.
Then a worldwide pandemic happened that reduced travel…
Seattle dev: 1st year -> 2 weeks, 2-4th year -> 3 weeks, 5th+ year -> 4 weeks.
California dev: 1st year -> 3 weeks, 2-4th year -> 4 weeks, 5th+ year -> 5 weeks.