We have more than enough data - be it Glassdoor, stories here, etc. - to say with certainty that this kind of thing is far more common at Amazon. Portraying it as "a thing everywhere" is deeply misleading.
Many companies have teams that can push you hard (I burned out at Microsoft, who in general is fairly good for work/life balance), but none of them make it a core part of their identity. Amazon prides themselves on bare metal optimizations, tracking and micromanaging the smallest time quantums they can - it's why they have a fleet of warehouses that grind picking employees into a broken down mess, it's why their offices have almost no perks, and it's why there are so many stories of their codebase and process being a mess.
Living in Seattle, I'm fortunate enough to have friends who work or have worked in all the big cloud orgs - AWS, Azure, GCP, and Oracle. The ranting, burnout, and raw shitshow quotient of Amazon is off the charts. It's the only company that any personal friends have ever warned me against joining, and ALL my friends that have ever tried to work there eventually gave me that warning.
Many companies have teams that can push you hard (I burned out at Microsoft, who in general is fairly good for work/life balance), but none of them make it a core part of their identity. Amazon prides themselves on bare metal optimizations, tracking and micromanaging the smallest time quantums they can - it's why they have a fleet of warehouses that grind picking employees into a broken down mess, it's why their offices have almost no perks, and it's why there are so many stories of their codebase and process being a mess.
Living in Seattle, I'm fortunate enough to have friends who work or have worked in all the big cloud orgs - AWS, Azure, GCP, and Oracle. The ranting, burnout, and raw shitshow quotient of Amazon is off the charts. It's the only company that any personal friends have ever warned me against joining, and ALL my friends that have ever tried to work there eventually gave me that warning.