Amazon

• Great brand name
• Good compensation
• Smart and motivated colleagues
• Interesting work and markets

Overall, this is a good company to be an engineer at. If you are looking for vivid colors, rainbows, and candy, look elsewhere (hint: Goog...). You learn a lot, and it changes your perspective of what it means to be an engineer. There is no separation of tester, dev ops, and SDE; you are all of them all at the same time. You take full ownership of your projects and your career here.

• You pay for subsidized parking (huh?)
• Health insurance is slightly worse than other tech giants.
• Although better now than in the past, public-facing teams are still haunted by an overworked culture.
• Stack ranking is still alive (even if they say it's not).
• It's hard to maintain work/life balance overall if you want to go up the ladder.

Keep improving the culture by your own standards. Don't copy the Googles and Facebooks of the world, but you can learn something from them along the line. Keep your identity.