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I kinda agree that Amazon is no longer a resume bump. But otoh, if a company holds a lower expectation on an ex-Amazon candidate (compared with average - "quite the opposite" as you said) just because the pip thing exists, I'd say that's very short-sighted and irrational, and would probably think again if I really want to work for them. Similarly, if they automatically think that an ex-Googler is worth hiring without proper evaluation.

"Reputations" of companies you worked for should have the absolute minimum influence on any hiring decisions. Don't blame others if you don't have a proper hiring process that works for you.

Current Amazon engineer (not AWS, not in NA or India) here. I feel very surprised to see folks in India having such a bad experience working in Amazon, because we're almost completely the opposite here. I feel bad for those who suffered.

I've been working for 2 years here now, never heard about the "intent to fire" thing. Our oncall is not perfect but we're definitely working to improve service stability. Working hours have been worse than before since the start of COVID (working at home makes it easier to overwork), but it's still manageable, and when we were in the office it was mostly a 9-5 (or 10-6) job. Unless you're oncall and get paged, nobody would expect you to think about work from the moment you walk out of the office in the evening.

Like people have said, managers really decide your experience. I've had some bad managers and did internal transfer to improve my experience. There were some projects where I worked with teams located in India, and sometimes I do feel that they're quite different. Some PMs and even leadership there would push really hard to get things done, to the extent that we could feel their pressure. That never happened in other projects we did before, and this post seems to give me some hints on why that happened.

Update: minor edits on grammar