Pros
* Amazon has a high quality of engineering community * In Amazon, you will be treated as business owner, not only a tech guy. Each team/Org in Amazon is a startup. You are responsible of making business decisions not only technical decisions. Example of those decisions: Should my team stop onboarding new customers and focus on improving the service quality? Should my team prioritize onboarding customers even if the features provided are not enough? How can we make my team more valuable/profitable? * Most of the tech leads are people oriented and willing to help juniors grow. * Amazon has a lot of interesting business and technical problems that challenges the engineer's technical muscles i.e design for scale, develop code that impacts millions of customers. * Amazon is very flexible and encourage internal transfers, which is great opportunity for engineers to explore different areas depending on their interest without having to change the employer. Same for locations.
Cons
* Depending on teams, but oncall impacts the engineer's quality of life. Team do their best to improve, but it's always annoying to wake up in the middle of the night to attend to customer impactful incidents. * Amazon HR and Immigration departments are terrible. Speaking from personal experience, try as hard as you can not to be reliant on Amazon HR team or Immigration team to support you, because they show no empathy and if your life depends on it, you will live HELL time. * Managers have huge power, which has its own pros and cons. The worst situation is to be working for terrible manager. They can ruin your life. On the other side, Amazon supports internal transfers, so you are given a tool to find your way out.