I've heard people on the more MBA side of tech refer to Amazon as an "executive factory." Dev managers at Amazon leave to be CTOs at startups. Senior engineers

I've heard people on the more MBA side of tech refer to Amazon as an "executive factory." Dev managers at Amazon leave to be CTOs at startups. Senior engineers leave to be architects. It's one of the best possible resume items you could get, particularly if you're moving to another cloud company -- although, obviously, that in particular seems to be a bit of a dangerous move if you don't wanna get sued.