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Of course, you're valuable. A company is much more interesting to assess according to how they treat less valued workers, like warehouse staff. Amazon does not rate highly in that regard.

Lots of my friends work in CS and they love their jobs.

He's referring to warehouse staff.

I don't think we can use that as a benchmark, since software engineers are treated much better on average across the industry.

IMO, the best indication of a company's general sense of ethics is the way they treat their lowest-paid employees. Amazon doesn't instill confidence in that regard.

If you ask Amazon warehouse workers who've worked at numerous large fulfillment centers for different companies, they say that by and large the work is about the same everywhere. Tough and not very well paid, but what do you expect for completely menial labour that will be replaced with robots in a couple of years.

Also Amazon SDE for 4 years in 3 different offices. Nothing but great things to say.

The recent HackerNews Amazon hate-train has been a huge bummer and mostly does not reflect reality.