Pros
Good benefits, good pay (though the expectation is you work 18 hours a day), some teams have good managers and "walk the talk", great technology, stock's on the rise.
Cons
macho culture, women in non-traditional roles are constantly undermined and gaslighted and no one stands up for them even when it happens in group situations, asking for help to stop harassment results in retaliation: if there are witnesses, HR will refuse to speak to them, managers play favourites and manipulate sales data to skew perception of performance, culture is unhealthily US-centric, it's not uncommon for there to be 50+ person non-technical teams with few or no women, lots of sales teams have one "token" woman hired in at a junior-level to the men expected to develop leads for them, illegal practices like "secret probation" are common, "anonymous" daily surveys are not anonymous, most managers now are white males hired in from companies where the culture is completely the opposite of what AWS aspires to have, women in top leadership have recently been hired but from outside the company rather than promoted from inside and we worry they have little agency or visibility to change things for the women below them and focus instead on "getting little girls interested in STEM "
