Amazon has small office in PDX working on new products. I hear the work life balance is terrible though. Bezos wants all of your life in exchange for RSUs. Do your research if you like to live.
Nothing is stopping you to switch teams. My last team sucked, so I moved out in 4-5 months. Nothing gets more visibility into team's issues like mass exodus.
Chipster1 that's a copout. Having a lax culture with "work life balance" has led to the disaster that Intel is today. High paying companies use RSU comp as the carrot to get sacrifice and commitment from employees but in return - these companies are also superbly led, innovative as fuck and promise job stability for performant employees too. I will choose amazon any day over intel - they just haven't chosen me (yet).
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