Amazon

Money is good. You will get name-brand recognition from a big company. Some of the people you work with are really smart.

1. Too much micromanagement.
2. Too much surveillance.
3. You can't really take vacation, as you can be fired when you come back for not meeting a deadline by yourself.
4. 11 hours a day is normal for software engineers on weekdays, and a lot of work on weekends along with on-call pager duty almost every night of the on-call week that comes every 3-4 weeks, usually.
5. If your manager does not like you, they can block your internal team transfer.
6. Amazon practices stack ranking, so even if you are an awesome engineer, you will be compared to everyone else in your team and eventually fired.
7. Pay is good, but not as good as it should be.
8. People will step on your hands to climb the corporate ladder, even if you are just trying to do your job and not really outrun anyone else.
9. All code review request revisions are averaged out, so if you push multiple revisions of each code review request, you will be given hell in your annual review.
10. Once you receive the rating as NI (Needs Improvement), no matter how much you improve, your life will be hell at Amazon. Based on last year's improvement being NI, you will be denied any raise in your upcoming year.
11. Vesting schedule is substandard, only 5% after the first year and 15% after the second year, which means they already know that you will leave within the first 2 years.
12. If you leave before finishing 2 years at Amazon, they will not give you their portion of RRSP/401k contribution.
13. Managers treat you badly in daily stand-ups and other meetings if you are not their favorite.
14. Their culture is really toxic, and your teammates are not willing to help you, or rather, are penalized for it.
15. Ramp-up is a nightmare, as you will be expected to know everything within the first week, and the documentation does not help at all.
16. In order to get promotion, people have created more than the needed number of solutions to do the exact same thing and shamefully defend it, saying it's different when actually it's not.
17. New grads are treated the worst, with literally no work-life balance.
18. H1B visas are abused by Amazon, as people are brought from all over the world and then fired after 6 months, leaving them 2 months to find a new job or to leave the country.
19. HR is not helpful, as they are there to protect the company and 99.99% of the time will take the manager's side.
20. Some people are just hired to fire, so the rest of the team can watch it happen and is scared for their job, so they work harder.
21. Examples of the above point can be found in the communities inside Phone Tool in Amazon, where former employees who got fired due to these policies have changed their name to (piped). PIP means they were put on a Performance Improvement Plan, which is Amazon's fancy name for managing an employee out.
22. Highly recommend to not even consider Amazon for interviews.

Shut this company down and put a lock on the door because it's damaged beyond repair.