>> Why do you stay?

> I've stayed for the following reasons:

The parent puts the question before the quote so that might be a bit confusing

All the things he said are pretty cookie cutter responses you'll hear echoed time and time again from Amazonians. They aren't original thoughts, and I wouldn't expect that this poster would respond 100% honestly if he did have concerns about his job as his profile easily links him to a real id, and Amazon doesn't take kindly to criticisms from NDA'd employees. For more context there's usually a training involved to be able to post online about Amazon, and it is explicit in not voicing criticisms.

Maybe they're cookie-cutter because they're true.

Amazon is not for everybody, and not everyone figures out how to identify bad teams and avoid them, and they have a bad time.

But if you have decent EQ, some backbone, and good technical skills, you can work on solving really hard problems with awesome peers that disproportionately do the right thing without being asked (because we cluster together).

I work for Amazon, but I don't speak on behalf of Amazon. The social media policy boils down to mostly common sense, don't share confidential information and make it clear you're not speaking for Amazon. No where does it say don't criticize Amazon. Be respectful of each other, our customers, partners, and others (including our competitors). You can criticize with out being disrespectful.