Amazon

• Smart people all around keeping you on your toes.
• Culture of thinking out of the box.
• Tough milestones to achieve promotions, which extracts the best out of the employees.
• Transparent internal job transfer to suit an employee's choice.

• Pathetic work-life balance.
• In the name of frugality, they do some cheap and mean things, like choosing a facility in the remotest corner of the city where facilities are cheap.
• The job offer letter misleads almost every employee. In the sense that the stocks given to an employee are considered every year during appraisal, and the increment in salary will be in inverse proportion to stocks vested. So, if lots of stocks get vested, the company won't give you much of a hike, even if you are a top performer.
• Hard to get recognized for good work, but fast enough to get criticized for an error.
• Have a history of lay-offs for a trifle error.

An employee's work ownership does not make the employee a workhorse that can keep running without any pause. Learn to recognize key employees and try to make them happy; after all, they are the ones who keep your company alive.