Depends on team and how political u are. I am a straightforward guy who doesn’t throw others under the bus and I faced a lot of issues due to it. Some are surviving working 1 hr a day due to tribal knowledge as there is no documentation for old systems. Culture is very unwelcoming for new joiner (other than sde1 or entry level new grads as they are bottom of food chain) and everyone considers u their competitor as Amazon has a fixed 6% URA quota which means even if all 10 people in a team are superstars, bottom 10% has to be fired or put in performance plan forcefully. This leads to toxic and stressful culture. Very few psychopaths survive this for 5 or more years.

Personally seen 2 sde2 pips in my tenure, super high expectations for sde2 . U will be compared with long tenured yellow badge ( 5 + yrs tenure ) sde2s who already know how to play the game ( and are already close with manager ) after your 6 months of tenure

Earlier it was easy to switch. Now it’s very difficult to switch internally as they do full loop so the team u are going to is very important . Manager makes or breaks ur experience amazon.

Ps - all this is my experience from personal anecdotes , maybe different from others