You're certainly allowed to be proud... but others don't have to respect your career choices (and many won't, which is fine).
Personally speaking, I've had Amazon try to pull me a few times and I just stopped responding to their emails. It's a large company and I can agree that there's leagues of separation between, say, AWS and warehouse operations... but I also just don't care, I can't co-sign the kind of stuff that you hear about (and has been verified by people coming forward).
The tech industry is large enough that if you're good enough to work at Amazon, you probably have options.
Personally speaking, I've had Amazon try to pull me a few times and I just stopped responding to their emails. It's a large company and I can agree that there's leagues of separation between, say, AWS and warehouse operations... but I also just don't care, I can't co-sign the kind of stuff that you hear about (and has been verified by people coming forward).
The tech industry is large enough that if you're good enough to work at Amazon, you probably have options.
My 2 cents, I guess.