Amazon

• Interesting problems to solve.
• Very interesting pay.
• Some very smart people around.
• Decent chance to boost your career.
• If you are in a customer-facing product, you get to impact millions of customers from day one (this may be a con too: if something breaks, you're responsible for fixing it).

The leadership principle "insist on the highest standards" does not seem to apply to our codebase. I've seen some 2000+ line classes, and I wonder how they ever passed a code review.

There is a high chance you will not use the latest technologies. I have to code on my own time to "not forget" languages like Node.js and Angular.

Too much bureaucracy to get things done. Things like getting permissions to access a resource or asking for help can sometimes take hours, even days.

The 2-day long SDE Bootcamp for ramp-up is a complete joke. You just follow instructions without really learning anything.