You are cherry picking against Google, which tends to be the best in the industry in terms of salary/hours worked. If your goal is to optimize this, then by all

You are cherry picking against Google, which tends to be the best in the industry in terms of salary/hours worked. If your goal is to optimize this, then by all means go work for Google. Doesn't mean that Amazon is a bad place to work. It has its benefits, namely being able to change teams/location easier than big tech, and the delegation of how the team is ran to org managers which are more in tune with their engineer requirements. Also WFH exemptions in Amazon are pretty common even before covid, with reasons like "i have to take care of my kid" that are well accepted, because it comes down to the manager and the skip manager for this that are generally interested in having qualified people stay on.