Pros: Good salary and smart people. Never a boring day. Lots to learn and opportunity to work on complex systems. I made lots of good connections. Lots of good stories about problem-solving and making meaningful contributions.

Cons: Very stressful and long hours. Organization-wide goals have questionable motivations. Tight deadlines and out-of-touch leadership. Worse benefits than other companies. Strong push for AI that results in justifying bad decisions.

Pros: - Competitive salary - RSUs (but bad vesting schedule: you vest almost nothing in the first two years) - Flexible working conditions, remote-friendly; you are trusted and not watched. - Nice offices in Kirchberg. - Good for learning the best practices in the industry and working outside of your comfort zone.

Cons: The company culture is too invasive: you have to think, act, behave, and even write in the Amazon way, which is really annoying after some time. Formatting environment: you need to fit the mold. Contrary to what they claim, I don't find this an inclusive company culture at all. You will only touch technologies from Amazon. Not all skills will be transferable to another company. You're a gear in the giant Amazon mechanism: as a Software Engineer, you're an interchangeable piece of mechanics that should function exactly as expected or you'll be pressured. You're evaluated by your peers and constantly compared to your peers. A lot of mechanics and processes complexifying interactions. Not very exciting nor engaging work: you'll probably work on yet-another-micro-service that does a tiny meeny optimization on a stupid process to save 2 cents on every occurrence of that process over the world, summing up to millions saved to the company. You'll have to advertise how well you did that and how much you enabled to save to be able to get some recognition and maybe get promoted! :) Speaking of promotions: you need to perform (and show that you've been performing) at the next level for some time before being promoted as such. (Very clever! Everyone in the company is getting paid to the level below for doing work at the next level! :])

Pros: My project is more front-end. My mentor and manager are super friendly. It's a good team environment.

Cons: Nothing! Maybe the remoteness because of COVID-19?