Amazon

• Very good if you are very driven and focused on software engineering, as you will likely be put into many projects back to back with tight deadlines.
• You will learn a lot, since you will be expected to design and deliver projects on your own.
• Everybody in the company is feeling the time pressure, so most will complete requests for you as fast as possible.

• Even though you technically can take breaks/vacation, it always feels like you shouldn't because of your impending deadlines.

• Very anti-social. It is difficult to find channels on Chime (Amazon's Slack) where people actively talk. Even when you hang out with others for lunch or games (i.e., ping pong), it feels like you can only do so for a short while before returning to work because of impending deadlines.

• No free Amazon Prime. Perks in general are very lacking compared to other top companies.

Leadership principles are an effective way to get people to work well with each other, but it's really easy for managers to make unreasonable requests and hide behind them.