Pros: Management really values engineers’ time and supports them when they want to pay down technical debt or focus on scalability. Small team structures, like at Amazon, emphasize ownership and teach many skills hands-on—writing the code, deploying, and ops management. (There is on-call for some software engineers, which may be a con for you). Very seriously takes some of the principles of agile/modern software development, such as committing to and checking-in on betterment from retrospectives, and using “we” phrasing when referring to outages and incidents. "Be Humble" is a corporate value, and it is lived out pretty well.

Cons: Interviews take up a lot of time, 1-2 hours a day really add up. Not so good at distributing tasks, such that senior engineers aren’t overloaded.

Pros: Great work-life balance, good people, and a lot of time off.

Cons: Pay is not the best. Too many new people at the company.

Pros: Amazing, smart people. Supportive company. Good benefits.

Cons: The company is extremely liberal, and in some cases, this caused myself and others to feel like we could not express ourselves.