Pros
- Competitive salary - RSUs (but bad vesting schedule: you vest almost nothing in the two first years..) - Flexible working conditions, remote friendly, you're being trusted and not watched. - Nice offices in the Kirchberg. - Good for learning the best practices in the industry and working out of your comfort zone
Cons
- The company culture is too invasive: you have to think, act, behave and even write in the Amazon way, which is really annoying after some time. - Formatting environment: you need to fit the mold. Contrary to what they claim, I don't find this an inclusive company culture at all. - You will only touch technologies from Amazon. Not all skills will be transferable to another company. - You're a gear in the giant Amazon mechanism: as a Software Engineer, you're an interchangeable piece of mechanics that should function exactly as expected or you'll be pressured. - You're evaluated by your peers and constantly compared to your peers. - A lot of mechanics and processes complexifying interactions. - Not very exciting nor engaging work: you'll probably work on yet-another-micro-service that does a tiny meeny optimization on a stupid process to save 2 cents on every occurrence of that process over the world, summing up to millions saved to the company, and you'll have to advertise how well you did that and how much you enabled to save to be able to get some recognition and maybe get promoted! :) - Speaking of promotions: you need to perform (and show that you've been performing) at the next level for some time before being promoted as such. (Very clever! Everyone in the company is getting paid to the level below for doing work at the next level! :] )