Amazon

Pay is pretty sweet, usually on the high-end of industry.

• Depending on the team, your 'Software Development Engineer' role might be more of a quality-assurance, dev ops, or sys-admin role.
• Seniority and office politics often take precedence over project-level experience.
• Lacks a culture of openness and compassionate mentorship. Many senior developers are prone to brushing junior developers off, citing a lack of research on the junior developers' part when they themselves have no knowledge.
• Poor documentation and horrendous in-house tooling exist amongst certain legacy applications, with extremely disturbing code hygiene.

Don't assign junior developers grunt work on obscure and niche, poorly-designed systems that the team lacks subject matter knowledge in.

Don't discount junior developers' suggestions and their understanding of systems, services, and tools based on their fewer years of experience.

Increase documentation efforts, and ensure all tutorial and learning resources work. Practice proper programming and code hygiene, for example:

• Ensure all packages and services have incremental builds.
• Don't have unused code files in production packages.
• Don't have tutorial packages searchable due to the same naming convention as production code.