Pros
+ Fascinating work + Immediate global impact + Folks are generally motivated, smart, and capable. + Scale.
Kontras
- Company is so cheap it's insane. Devs are forced to buy your own hardware in many cases. Amazon pays $250k / year for an senior engineer, and then provides a $399 laptop and won't upgrade it for 3 years. No dual monitors. The list goes on and on. It's insane and frankly just stupid. - On-Call. This is core to Amazon, and is really a huge place of indescribable suckage. - Mysterious review process. Just as bizarre and opaque as Microsoft's. - Parking. There is none. Amazon doesn't pay much towards it, so you're stuck paying out of pocket. - Starting Vacation is 2 weeks, no exceptions. Coming from MSFT I had 5 weeks / year. - No tuition reimbursement.