Amazon

Amazon is a very innovative company with never a dull moment at work. Management greatly encourages new ideas/technology, given that you can get some free time off your operational load (see below). The company has some of the smartest people around and provides awesome learning and career growth opportunities. If you ever wonder what it takes to keep a large-scale distributed system working, where the customer never even realizes the machinery behind amazon.com, you need to come work at Amazon. It's a great place to work, learn some new stuff, and have fun while doing it. Amazon totally rocks!

Operational load messes up your regular development work.

Be prepared to live with chaos.

Focus on reducing operational load for developers.