@val_baca provided some great feedback on this already. And with the caveat that I've only worked here since March, I'll say that I agree with what he's mentioned. The workload doesn't honestly feel inordinately high - to me, at least. Yes, we have a lotta work. (And honestly, we should have a lotta work, considering how we're compensated.) But there's a tremendous amount of trust/freedom afforded to us as well. I've had to call out for a few days here-and-there, and no one's batted an eye at it yet. (Although I'm sure that would be quite different if you didn't know how to properly/professionally communicate those times off with your manager and/or your colleagues.)
I also think, given that Amazon tends to hire very "top-shelf" kinda devs, one of the expectations about being in that kinda privileged position is that you're inherently self-driven. For example, it's almost 9:30PM right now - and I'm still working. But am I working cuz someone at Amazon yelled at me or pressured me into working late?? Not at all. I'm working now because 1) this is a great time for me to work, and 2) I'm incredibly invested in finishing the coding task in front of me at the moment. If I had just shut down my laptop at 5PM, nobody woulda said a darn thing to me about it. But I want to be working on this code right now.
Ultimately, it's about whether or not you can deliver a large volume of quality solutions in an "efficient" period of time. When you're trying to get a lotta stuff done, and you feel personally invested in the work, then sometimes you find yourself working late - entirely of your own accord.
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@val_baca provided some great feedback on this already. And with the caveat that I've only worked here since March, I'll say that I agree with what he's mentioned. The workload doesn't honestly feel inordinately high - to me, at least. Yes, we have a lotta work. (And honestly, we should have a lotta work, considering how we're compensated.) But there's a tremendous amount of trust/freedom afforded to us as well. I've had to call out for a few days here-and-there, and no one's batted an eye at it yet. (Although I'm sure that would be quite different if you didn't know how to properly/professionally communicate those times off with your manager and/or your colleagues.)
I also think, given that Amazon tends to hire very "top-shelf" kinda devs, one of the expectations about being in that kinda privileged position is that you're inherently self-driven. For example, it's almost 9:30PM right now - and I'm still working. But am I working cuz someone at Amazon yelled at me or pressured me into working late?? Not at all. I'm working now because 1) this is a great time for me to work, and 2) I'm incredibly invested in finishing the coding task in front of me at the moment. If I had just shut down my laptop at 5PM, nobody woulda said a darn thing to me about it. But I want to be working on this code right now.
Ultimately, it's about whether or not you can deliver a large volume of quality solutions in an "efficient" period of time. When you're trying to get a lotta stuff done, and you feel personally invested in the work, then sometimes you find yourself working late - entirely of your own accord.