Pros
Not a lot of pros ... They let you take as much time off as you want (within reason) Pay is really good, apart from the 5-15-40-40 vesting schedule They reimburse a lot of expenses - Public Transit, Phone Bill, equipment, etc Having Amazon/AWS on your resume is the biggest pro, in my opinion
Cons
- Re:Invent workload is very bad and poorly managed - WLB is non existent - especially during Q4 - Depending on your team, on call load is very stressful - Remote employees are not really taken care of that well. - They do not have any concept of DevOps ... If you're hired as a front end engineer, it means nothing. You are doing UI work, and also a lot of other things. This is not necessarily a bad thing, but is a negative for people who want to specialize in a specific area