Pros: At Amazon, one feels at home. It isn't taxing; it's like you're getting paid to be yourself! A kind staff, a healthy company!

Cons: Some challenging things, well, because one feels at home here, some tend to become sluggish. If a person is naturally slow, the homey feel will exaggerate that aspect of a person.

Pros: There are a ton of talented people to work with. Even working temporarily remote because of COVID, the few people I have worked with are knowledgeable, smart, and strive to build high-quality stuff.

Cons: You may join a team that owns old applications, and you'll be stuck for some time doing things that you may not be interested in.

Pros: Like in all other tech megacorps, compensation is above market, especially at senior positions.

Cons: The primary objective is shipping features on time, no matter how much overtime, stress, or bugs will be caused by it. Internal tools are trash. The errors are cryptic, and the UI is buggy. People who wrote the tools have largely moved on to working on other things, so the problems will likely never get fixed. Internal docs are trash. Half of the info is missing, and half of the info that is present is outdated. On-call rotation sucks hard. Everyone on my team dreaded it. There are things breaking every 20 minutes, you get bombarded by problem reports and requests to fix stuff without nearly enough time to handle them all. Overall, the work environment is not friendly or enjoyable by any means. Most people are so stressed out about their own projects that they won't be willing to help you unless you keep bugging them over and over. Approval processes suck. You can easily spend the entire day going back and forth with approvals when trying to get a deployment done. Their leadership principles sound nice. Too bad in practice they aren't adhered to.