Amazon

The people I've come across here are most of them quite talented, and there is a lot of scope to learn from them. This is especially true for people who are out of campus or have little industry experience.

You have the option of working from home.

There is a very thin line between being frugal and being cheap; my manager falls into the latter category. I can safely say that we would be the most frugal team in the WTC building. We had almost no outings, no fun, and a manager who was paranoid about dates.

There's very little scope for personal growth in Amazon. There are a few teams which have good work and are recognized; most others are below average. I've met a handful of engineers who are satisfied with their job here.

Promotions are at a snail's pace. The only promotion that I saw in my team during my tenure was one SDE-1 getting promoted to SDE-2 after completing nearly 5 years with the company.

On-call sucks. It can be made worse with a bad manager. There have been times when I had worked on high-severity issues over the weekend late into the night, and I get called by my manager at 0700 hrs Sunday morning, where he wanted the summary of the event after he had woken up.

In case you are wondering what org I was a part of, it was TRMS.

You need to hire good managers. Good individual contributors don't always make for very good managers.