Amazon

• Work with intelligent and driven people.
• Potential for interesting projects.
• Excellent tooling for software.
• Nice name to have on resume.

• Can have a toxic and backstabbing culture, especially as you are promoted up.
• Retail and AWS are pretty obviously no longer "day 1" culture. There are way fewer chances being taken, and anything not making an immediate profit is in danger. There is little vision and even less appetite for risk.
• Potentially bad on-call and work-life balance, which is very team-dependent.
• Compensation does not match peers, is very stock-based, and the "average" comp increase is usually less than inflation.

It has become obvious that the only customers the company cares about are the investors. The quarter-to-quarter, short-term thinking that Amazon used to be known to avoid is now the law of the land. Leadership principles are no longer taken seriously, especially the more recent additions. As long as the difference between the lived experience of the employees and the corpo-speak coming from management keeps growing, the culture will keep getting worse. The only reason Amazon is still considered a good tech company to work for is the comp, which is also the weakest compared to its peers. Raise the quality bar, or else become the mediocre average big company you always said you wouldn't be.