Amazon

Great benefits and stock at a company whose stock has gone up by hundreds of dollars over the past two years.

Can be great opportunities to apply new technologies and work on cutting-edge products.

Teams are very insulated, so experience can vary drastically depending on what organization you end up in. However, the guidelines surrounding performance evaluation are standardized across the company and can prove restrictive for individual managers.

In my experience, managers tend not to have time or resources to monitor individual performance and can't accurately assess individuals to help them improve or warn them until they are actually conducting performance reviews, at which point corrective action is immediately required with limited flexibility.

Keep track of data that you will use to assess employees during performance reviews. Have it available throughout the year so you have clear information when an employee might be slipping and can work to correct before performance reviews restrict your options.