Pros: Good compensation, excellent job role flexibility, smart people, a lot of independence, and the ability to show ownership.

Cons: Work pressure, late nights, lots of management pressure (sometimes directly getting to engineers, which may not be the norm in a lot of companies), no HR intervention.

Pros: * Good salary. * Leadership principles are for real. * Native AWS development offers lots of learning. * Nice offices. * Good internal structure (small teams, good planning, tech managers). * Nice perks (free coffee, food, beer, courses, etc.).

Cons: * Painful ops, as we have to be on call for a whole week every now and then. * You are chained to internal tools and frameworks. * You don't see a lot of promotions to senior positions, even for people with years of contributions.

Pros: Ironically, the best perk for me is being able to bring my dogs to work. On my team, we've got a solid codebase to work from, a fantastic manager, amazing coworkers, and even our interns can create products that are seen by millions of people. Being able to work on really highly visible projects that have a significant impact is awesome. There is some *really cool stuff* to work on, and a lot of interesting problems to solve.

Cons: Amazon doesn't really give a feeling of warm fuzzy caring for its developers. It makes sense, since the profit margin is pretty low and we have to make it up in volume, but the lack of perks and decent developer hardware makes us feel kind of unloved at times ("frugality" is even one of our core leadership principles). I try to think of it as making us morally superior to companies that splurge on pampering the developers, but I do get jealous on occasion. Also, depending on the team, there can be a lot of obnoxious interference from business managers, randomization, and terrible codebases. We're moving away from Perl as the main language for website templating, but it's not happening nearly fast enough. And sometimes teams are just meatgrinders. Amazon has a hard time hiring enough to keep up with project growth, much less to keep up with maintenance and OE. I'm also not a huge fan of future-vesting stocks in the place of actual money for bonuses or part of salary.