After 8+yrs at a company of retirement culture, how can I make a move?

Hi Blinders, I've been working at DHL in a Midwest city for over 8+yrs, from fresh graduate to sr. manager (IC, TC is about $140k). We are 3PL, so I do B2B network and transportation solution design. The team culture here is like retirement, nobody cares that much about self development and people barely work 4hrs/day and happy with doing what they are assigned and earning 3% YOY wage growth. How you progress in the company is also not performance based but on politics/networking. I'm very afraid of staying too far away from the rest of the world and become too old to progress my career one day... After surfing Blind for some days, I feel the urge to get into FAANG, for bigger paycheck, to learn new things and to stay competitive in job market. However, I have these below questions and hope to hear your opinion. 1. Background: I found supply chain jobs in most big tech companies like Intel, Google, Oracle, Microsoft are around OEM, manufacturing, inventory which I don't have knowledge/ experience in. I'm thinking to do CPIM. This is not cheap and very time consuming, will this help at all? Any other suggestion? 2. Pay: I'm thinking to ask for TC$180k. How difficult to get this number in west coast and how would this compare to TC$140 in midwest? 3. Culture: To be honest, the most background aligned company would be Amazon. But reading so much toxic culture reviews on it, I'm a little scared... I'm a mom with young kid, how friendly is Amazon's policy to women and maternity leave etc? 4. Referral: Is it that without referrals, it would be almost impossible to get the recruiters see my application in these big companies? 5. What companies would you recommend me to target on? #supplychain #women #amazon #google #oracle #logistics #culture #microsoft