Amazon

A great company to have on your CV, it will open a lot of doors.

A lot to learn for a Software Engineer, and there are always things happening and new teams forming. You can either go to existing products or work in new teams that develop new and cool stuff.

If you like doing more than coding, you have the chance to. The company is very open to having well-rounded employees.

Stocks are great, and pay is also quite good.

The company is actively trying to get rid of its bureaucracy.

A large company, with all the disadvantages that any large company has. Things can move very slow at times. It's not a flat hierarchy (we have a tool that shows us just how hierarchical we are), and there's quite a lot of politics.

If you're not the type to stand up for yourself, you'll likely hate it here. Management will always be understanding, but they won't be your nanny.

You own your career development, so if you don't get involved and prefer to have things come to you, you might not like it here.

The pay will always exist to make Amazon competitive, but they won't give more salary or raises out of the goodness of their heart.

Continue the work on making everything more open, and try to give salary bumps that don't just reflect the inflation rate.