Amazon

GREAT things about Amazon:

• Widest employee diversity I've ever seen and amazing people.
• Takes on all immigration-related matters for free, which is great for immigrating into a country.
• Competitive salary.
• Good initial signing bonus and relocation lump sum package.
• Strives to achieve excellence in software development practices, and excellence is encouraged.
• Very DevOps-like and allows for quick development compared to traditional companies (I don't know about comparison with Google/Facebook, other tech giants).
• Most people are strong professionals in their area of knowledge.
• Everybody loves learning and are quick learners.
• Comfy office with all supplements needed for working.
• Everybody is hard working.

From time to time, it can become very demanding, and objectives are always set higher than what can physically be done in a given time. These are then used as a performance measurement.

Depending on the project, one can end up in a very boring one.

Competitive landscape for career growth, but opportunities for everyone.

Has a few technologies that are unique to Amazon and won't serve anywhere else. However, conceptually, you can call this a pro.

Since most of the team works really hard (extra hours), the performance is expected to be on the same level, setting the bar really high and affecting work-life balance considerably. No compensation whatsoever other than "sorry". Extra hours are not recorded anywhere.