Pros: Products and services. That's it. Nothing more.

Cons: No work-life balance, worst management and politics. No values, no culture.

Pros: Amazon has a great international presence and, as such, employs a vast variety of people. As a result, one meets and interacts with people from myriad backgrounds and nationalities. One gets to travel and experience this multi-national flavour. The company has a very rigorous attitude towards software development. There is a well-established discipline of testing and deployment. Amazonians are very particular about how every feature/upgrade affects the customer, whether internal or external. As a hard-core technology company, it uses state-of-the-art technologies and provides various opportunities in various aspects of software engineering. The company also provides internal training if one wishes to learn some new technology.

Cons: Many teams are split into multiple sub-teams based at different geographical locations, in fact in different countries. The difference in time zones and the inability to conveniently meet face-to-face introduces delays and sometimes, miscommunication. Since every team is mandated to support their software and almost all software is in the form of internal services, every team member has to perform on-call duties for addressing emergency bugs. This can be stressful, as an emergency bug report can come in any time during the day or night. Also, since most teams are small, the on-call rotation is quite frequent.

Pros: - Leadership principles learned at Amazon can be very helpful for your career and even in life. - If you are in the right team, you can have the opportunity to do some really good work.

Cons: Some leadership principles are not applied in a good, measured way. By some, I mean the principle of frugality. For example, desktops and laptops are shitty, to an extent that they slow down work sometimes. Another example is making it as hard as possible for filing and getting reimbursements. Pay is very low compared to the market once you have spent more than a year. Salaries don't increase at all, and there are no new RSUs until you get promoted. There is bad management in most teams/orgs. It takes too long to start the Green Card process compared to other companies. Hiring quality varies a lot. There is no subsidized or free food. Happy hours or employee/team bonding events are very rare. Even when choosing a lunch place for a rare team bonding, for example, one has to pay attention to not spending more than a certain amount of money on lunch.