[mynameisash]

My experience there was overall very negative. My comment above, though, was actually a very bright spot, and I want to call out the positives that exist.

At the time, I had several years in the industry under my belt but was new to big tech companies, and especially the tech that Amazon had built. I lacked confidence in myself but I was super conscious of actively seeking out the help of others. And it failed spectacularly - one SDE3 in my team with whom I was sort of paired would quite literally back away slowly when I was showing him an issue I needed his advice on.

Big companies like that have such variation in teams, and I think I just got rather unlucky in my experience.