Amazon

With a good manager at Amazon (depending on your org), you can strike a good work-life balance. Compensation is great for new hires. Amazon's internal tools are extremely impressive and cool to work with. AWS tools are super streamlined and bootstrapped for you. Amazon's number one focus is the customer and business, which is a cool value to learn about and makes these projects interesting from a business perspective.

Tech debt is a pretty big problem on a lot of teams, and these projects are often not super interesting. The business projects can be really interesting if you fall in line with Amazon's focus on the customer. However, from a technical perspective, projects aren't always the most technically interesting. A lot of this is org-dependent, though. The biggest con across all teams as an entry-level employee is your closeness to leadership and experienced engineers. The most experienced engineer you might have consistent access to on most teams might have only a 6-year tenure, which limits opportunities for tech mentorship.

Have higher standards for tech and focus more on tech stack work. Increase access to higher-level engineers.