Pros
If you enjoy a fast-paced environment that constantly challenges you, gives you room to absolutely own your space and provides constant ambiguity that will utilize your problem-solving skills, creative and tests your ability to be a pioneer, Amazon is an extremely exciting and invigorating place to work. Some of my personal pros consist of the following: - Incredibly smart people - Never-ending opportunities to be innovative - Constantly creating new things - Educational - you learn a lot working here, and there are endless opportunities to move around between teams in order to develop and grow - Company is a not afraid to take risks if it will provide a fantastic customer experience - Ability to make things happen quickly - If there's something you want to change, go for it! - Diverse workforce - there is a huge initiative pertaining to this right now, and it's exciting
Cons
Let's face it, Amazon is not for everyone. If you are someone who likes to be complacent, enjoys knowing exactly what your day-to-day is going to be and prefers to operate under rules and guidelines, then you will not enjoy Amazon. This isn't to say that either preference is "right" or "correct", but it definitely accounts for many of the people who have decided to no longer continue their employment here. Even so, there are some cons that I can personally provide as someone who does enjoy working for the company in general: - No positive affirmations. Although this is not absolutely necessary, it would be nice to experience every once in awhile - Poor work-life balance usually occurs during your first year here. However; most people are able to get in a groove where they can figure out how to correct this. - Management quality is incredibly inconsistent here. Some are very strong managers, but there are many who are also very weak. This is due to the scaling that has taken place which has resulted in very strong ICs moving into management roles when they are not well-prepared to manage people. - Perks do not compare to Google or Facebook. I'm not in it for the "perks", but I could see how this could be a deterrent or a disappointment for some people.