Wages at Amazon were based on explosive stock gains, now that the stock has leveled off, you'll see what Amazon intended to pay engineers. I was part of comp pl

Wages at Amazon were based on explosive stock gains, now that the stock has leveled off, you'll see what Amazon intended to pay engineers. I was part of comp planning, the numbers are lower than you think. Every year I was trained to tell engineers that their take home was higher than expected. Amazon's benefits are simply worse than peer companies. They've mostly fixed their parental leave, but they still only have 9 sick days a year. Their 401k match is paltry. The office perks are non existent. Wrt work life balance, how many engineers are oncall? Are they paid extra for their oncall shift? Are they expected to work more than 40 hours if that pager goes off? Also, Amazon is a date driven company - aggressive targets are set and you will be pushed to hit those dates. Vacation is paltry. Last year, Google employees had something like 19 paid holidays and 20 days of vacation (minimum). What's a new hire at Amazon getting? I guarantee it's not ~40 days off a year. And I already mentioned the limit of 9 sick days. And WFH, does Amazon allow folks to be full-time remote if they want? Can anyone, at any time say, "I'd like to move to being full time WFH"? If not, the policy at Amazon is hardly "lenient".