I had competing offers between Audible & Blackrock, and decided on Audible, though the pay-band was much lower, because I was told by my recruiter that hybrid work was here to stay. I wanted work life balance, since I have two small children who my wife and I don't send to daycare because we desperately want to spend the next few years with them before they head to school. I was lied to, I have watched other benefits being rapidly cut over the last year. Whatever this company was before Amazon, it is no longer that. The culture has become efficiency, frugality, and exploitation.