I’m going to offer a different perspective here as someone who was lucky enough to get placed on a pretty good team within Prime Video. I just hit the 1 yr mark, fwiw. The engineering bar is top notch, lots of attention to code quality, and management seems to care and listen to us engineers, though we occasionally clash of course. With Amazon, YMMV, so try your best to choose a good team though it’s a bit of a lottery ultimately.

I’ve heard AWS can be super brutal, the consensus seems to avoid it.