Pros: 1. Great software development work at AWS. 2. Intelligent teammates.

Cons: 1. Slow career growth. 2. Unclear career growth path. 3. Workload is high, more often than not.

Pros: Good place to start, but not to stay.

Cons: Incompetent managers and micromanaging TPMs made SDM managers that won't listen to everyone but whomever kisses their bum. Managers want to enforce leadership principles, but they themselves are unable to. They give great feedback all year, then turn around and, out of nowhere, say the opposite.

Pros: Part of something big and generally good - Amazon is truly a customer-focused company that has brought some real value to the marketplace. Ability to have large-scale impact in your work: stuff I've worked on has been deployed on hundreds of machines and handled $100 MM+ in business. Colleagues are smart, pragmatic, and get things done. The colleagues here are some of the best that I've worked with in nearly 10 years in the industry.

Cons: Operational overhead - If you're lucky, you will be on a newer team without much operational overhead. Most likely, you'll be spending a significant portion of your time dealing with operational issues (pages, data backfills, investigating production alarms, resolving issues with other teams, etc.). Work-life balance is hard to maintain. Very little professional development - Aside from internal speaker sessions, there are few opportunities for professional growth and development. Email - I have grown to despise Outlook more than ever before. How can people read this much email? Development process - Some teams do Agile; some operate in a chaotic code-and-fix mode. There's little support for best practices across the company. If you are coming from outside and have done some reading or practice in software engineering processes, this place will feel like a gigantic step backwards. HR - There is essentially no human resources department in this company. For almost all questions, you'll be talking to an email alias. Ridiculous upper management escalations - Seriously, do you need to critique form layouts when they've been designed by a UI expert? And your background is in what, again? Internal build tools and frameworks - Outdated, can be frustrating, little documentation.