I'm at Amazon now, my team is fairly shitty - let's say in the bottom third of engineering teams anyone at the company would want to work for - and the average tenure of people on the team is close to 5 years.
It's hard to get fired as a college hire. It happens, but only if you're pretty lazy or a fuckup or a mis-hire to begin with. I've seen vanishingly few cases where someone was managed out at a time that it denied them stock vests, and only once that it was even mentioned (then by an exceptionally petty manager).
To be perfectly clear: working at Amazon sucks for plenty of reasons, some of them covered in this thread. Compensation is not commensurate with the quality of engineer you have to be to work there, the company is disgustingly cheap in general, many teams are drowning in tech debt (the original post's cheerleading aside, half my org is still suffering from the slapdash way the Oracle migration was sped through to meet arbitrary internal deadlines), and the fraction of managers interested in building petty fiefdoms rather than interesting or good tech is increasing at an alarming rate. But anyone who thinks it's a huddled mass of sobbing husks with PTSD is overstating it.
It's hard to get fired as a college hire. It happens, but only if you're pretty lazy or a fuckup or a mis-hire to begin with. I've seen vanishingly few cases where someone was managed out at a time that it denied them stock vests, and only once that it was even mentioned (then by an exceptionally petty manager).
To be perfectly clear: working at Amazon sucks for plenty of reasons, some of them covered in this thread. Compensation is not commensurate with the quality of engineer you have to be to work there, the company is disgustingly cheap in general, many teams are drowning in tech debt (the original post's cheerleading aside, half my org is still suffering from the slapdash way the Oracle migration was sped through to meet arbitrary internal deadlines), and the fraction of managers interested in building petty fiefdoms rather than interesting or good tech is increasing at an alarming rate. But anyone who thinks it's a huddled mass of sobbing husks with PTSD is overstating it.