Pros: Amazing technologies. Excellent opportunities. Nice benefits. Also, you get hands-on AWS solutions well. Growing up the ladder depends entirely on your skills.

Cons: A person promoted from SDE 1 to SDE 2 gets a higher salary when compared to a person hired as SDE 2 from outside.

Pros: If you luck out getting into an awesome team, AWS technical recognition, some areas are high growth. Amazon-only buildings could have bike lockers and showers with towels.

Cons: Frupidity/corner cutting: Benefits/bonuses, workplace items, perks. Culture: High churn, disorganized management, lack of standards across teams, little to no promotion of work-life balance, no institutional support of outside activities/groups, outsourcing/poor-to-none of HR and benefits-related roles. As examples: * Stock bonus only 5% then 15% for 1st and 2nd year, and pre-fixed to dollar amount not shares. * Focus on international hiring as those candidates are "cheaper" since less competition. * No 401K matching benefit--it is a "bonus" that requires 2 years or all is forfeited. * Health plans with too many loopholes for coverage. * Moving bonus requires 2 years to keep. * Cash bonuses also require 2 years. * No workplace perks or general freebie items. * Only get $100 per year discount on Amazon.

Pros: Good compensation. Opportunities to take ownership and build from scratch.

Cons: On-calls are hectic, but it depends on the team working upon.