Amazon

Great jump start to my career; I'm now able to get my foot in the door for a lot of opportunities.

A high-reputation brand means better networking.

Learning AWS and other Amazon services is beneficial to a developer in general.

Utilizing the most relevant technologies.

Amazing pay for an intern.

Housing stipend for the internship.

• Experience is VERY team-dependent.
• Work-life balance can be difficult on your team, even for an intern.
• My team didn't seem ready for an intern; onboarding felt rushed and essential information for my project wasn't available to me from the start.
• My team was fairly small, with a small pool of FT SDEs to receive assistance from. This also impacted their work, since they had to set aside more time for me.