Current Amazon engineer (not AWS, not in NA or India) here. I feel very surprised to see folks in India having such a bad experience working in Amazon, because

Current Amazon engineer (not AWS, not in NA or India) here. I feel very surprised to see folks in India having such a bad experience working in Amazon, because we're almost completely the opposite here. I feel bad for those who suffered. I've been working for 2 years here now, never heard about the "intent to fire" thing. Our oncall is not perfect but we're definitely working to improve service stability. Working hours have been worse than before since the start of COVID (working at home makes it easier to overwork), but it's still manageable, and when we were in the office it was mostly a 9-5 (or 10-6) job. Unless you're oncall and get paged, nobody would expect you to think about work from the moment you walk out of the office in the evening. Like people have said, managers really decide your experience. I've had some bad managers and did internal transfer to improve my experience. There were some projects where I worked with teams located in India, and sometimes I do feel that they're quite different. Some PMs and even leadership there would push really hard to get things done, to the extent that we could feel their pressure. That never happened in other projects we did before, and this post seems to give me some hints on why that happened. Update: minor edits on grammar