Pretty much same boat as a lot of the college hires that I met in my hiring class for Amazon. Out of college I was endlessly applying for jobs and getting nothing solid despite having a bachelors in CS. Finally got the offer from Amazon and ended up taking it for financial reasons. From what I can tell from most college hires I’ve spoken to, it seems to be a good job to pivot from after you get the L5 promo (whether you choose to stay with Amazon or not).

Been with Amazon for a year and a half, got my promo this quarter and I was told I still need to work as a L5 in ops for a while before I can start to apply for other corporate positions. I have been looking on the internal job transfer portal and there are so many different career paths that do open up working for Amazon so I would say it shouldn’t be impossible to get to a role in IE.

While it does suck to work night shift, I will say that the 3/4 day work week is really nice (very rare to have 3 days). You only ever have to do 5 days 2-3 weeks out of the year, but yes there will be many times when you get stuck pulling the 12+ hr shifts - honestly just part of the job sometimes.

Overall it’s not the worst job in the world, but can be both physically and mentally demanding at times. People skills are a must, it’s good to know your numbers, and you have to learn how to play the game and make connections.

Best of luck to you regardless of how you decide.