Pros: I learned a lot, with a good amount of ownership and less bureaucracy compared to Microsoft before Satya. It was easy to change teams within the company, and there was a lot of opportunity.

Cons: Depending on the team and manager, there can be a time crunch.

Pros: I am in an AWS team with good WLB and not too much politics.

Cons: I can see the bottleneck of career growth, and it looks like a lack of promotion opportunities.

Pros: - Small teams, pizza teams. - Stocks and pay are good. - Smart people, though a lot of them are prima donnas.

Cons: - Lack of work/life balance: You are expected to work crazy hours and meet arbitrary deadlines set by management. - Management lacks respect for the engineers: They often yell at employees. - Management promotes engineers who are loud and obnoxious. - Operation support: You have to carry a pager 24 hours, which sucks the life out of you. - Lack of tools/support: Extremely bad tools support for build, deploy, and IDE. - Poor computer hardware: You have a 5-year-old machine. - Dirty bathrooms and carpet: Amazon is known for being cheap and it saves every penny, even on cleaning the bathrooms.