I hear a lot of disaster stories from corporate at Amazon too, some from coworkers who have worked there. It has a well-known bad reputation in general in tech, even for non-software fields. My girlfriend has heard bad stories about Amazon from the hardware side as well. This doesn't even include some of the absolutely terrible things they do on the warehouse side either - I have friends who have first hand accounts from having worked there, and none of them are pretty.

It's one of the few companies on my list of companies to avoid, unless they improved their employee treatment (and got rid of their bad employee RSU vesting schedule).