5 years experience as BI, worked at Amazon then moved to two lesser known tech companies. At Amazon I was worked to death and when I left I really hated the company. Bezos is a psychopath and it is felt in the culture at every level. I thought I'd never go back to a large company like that. Experience since is a trade off. The workload is considerably more manageable and I've yet to run into a narcissist or witness the abusive behavior I saw at Amazon. At the same time, there is a trade off: leaders are not as strong here, there are a ton of meetings. No real data-driven decisions and often people are promotes based on tenure rather than talent. But I'm home by 5 every night, my boss is a kind and smart person and I am learning a lot. Pay is comparable, I could probably get more elsewhere but I work about 35 hrs per week so I'm happy with the situation. My question is, which companies of high caliber don't have the churn and burn mentality? Which don't work their employees to death? I am starting to think this is the trade off I need to make in tech--work/life balance or work with smart people on an awesome product. Any thoughts?
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in my opinion MSFT is good for compensation (if you negotiate) n wlb is excellent.
Thanks. They're on my radar for sure but that commute to Redmond would be a killer.
where do you live now? I have colleagues from Seattle downtown (they use connectos n fine with it) others from Bellevue, Issaquah, Duvall, Carnation and they are also fine because in my team we really don’t have specific hours and option to work from home (sometimes and not always).