Amazon

• Surrounded by top engineers.
• Challenging problems and complex systems to be worked on.
• Very high salary and bonus.
• Large-scale events can expose you to a lot of experience in a short amount of time.
• You get to work for one of the biggest tech companies in the world and see how they are built.
• You get to work with teams across Amazon.

• On-call rotation can be taxing (can vary depending on team).
• Heavy workload.
• Large-scale events can be stressful.
• Work-life balance was not great for me.
• Expected to ramp up quickly and early on, despite not being exposed to a lot of the processes, and perform at the same levels as more tenured team members, regardless of past experience.
• Budget constraints from higher up can affect the team.
• If you don't reach the "bar," you will be notified and put on a PIP.
• This bar is not very clear at every level.
• Even if the engineers are on your side, at the end of the day, the manager decides if you stay or not.

If a team is performing well even with fewer engineers, this will not be healthy for the team in the long run. I was on a small team, and the workload was very heavy, but we were performing well. So, perhaps that's why we weren't allocated any new engineers while I was there, even though the team agreed that we needed extra hands.

Please take into account stressful times and outside factors, not just numbers. Targets to meet might not make sense in every case.

I felt like I was not going to pass probation very early on in my tenure due to how management reacted.

Please take into account different backgrounds of new employees, or do not hire them at all.