I remember from my stint at Amazon many years ago that everyone at Amazon, including me, felt that surely our total compensation was higher than our peers at other companies to make up for the lack of benefits. Otherwise everyone else would have left, right? Long story short, we were wrong. There was nothing better about being at Amazon than the other top tech companies.

That said, I didn't find the work as bad as some others experienced it. My team's pager only went off once a day or so at most.