Amazon

• Loads of intelligent people to work and learn with.
• Lots of challenging problems to work on as a team.
• Lots of engagements on new CS topics with lunch and learns.
• Good work-life balance for most teams.
• Will gain great software engineering skills.

• A "waterfall" company can drive a slow boat to nowhere attitude sometimes. You can get stuck working on very easy tasks for months.

• The ability to work outside your role is limited. If you are new to software engineering, it would be beneficial to work at a startup first. You will gain more coding skills and coding projects that challenge your knowledge. At Amazon, you will work on the same thing 100 times until you automate it.

• It is hard to get promoted at the upper levels. It's a "checkbox list" of requirements, and if the role you're in doesn't provide you those opportunities, you will never get promoted.

Listen to your engineers more.