Amazon

Work is generally very challenging and impactful. You will have the opportunity to work with many great senior and principal engineers who have extensive experience designing large-scale systems and services.

The culture involves pretty tight deadlines driven by business needs. You will have to balance your operational load with your feature work to meet these deadlines. All the work will have great visibility among senior leadership, leading to excellent growth opportunities.

The company has a strong history of building robust, scalable, and highly durable businesses and business models. Bezos's S-Team is supremely experienced and has successfully built a great work culture and robust businesses.

Completely urban campus! Regular happy hours! Free cereal and snacks! Monthly phone and parking reimbursement! You also get swag much more often than you might think! ;-)

Tight deadlines and sometimes operational responsibilities can get heavy because of the scale at which Amazon operates.

You won't have the great perks that some other companies have, like free food and all, but you have great food trucks and free cereal and snacks to compensate for that!