1. Good Salary
2. Good amount of new work if you are interested
3. Easy to switch between different teams and organizations within Amazon
4. Makes you part of MAANG
Cons
1. Low Work Life Balance
2. More competitive
3. Demands for putting extra hours to learn technologies or to figure out bottlenecks or any POC
I know this depends on the team so this might not apply to every part of AWS so take this with a grain of salt, I will just talk about my division. I have received lots of help from current coworkers as well as previous ones (the ones I met during my internship). While managers are very busy, so far they have never denied a time to meet me and guide me. In my division and team people work hard but only their hours which is something that I really love because I don’t bring work to home. I definitely feel welcomed here and I am very thankful because they gave me my first job opportunity.
Cons
I don’t see this being mentioned in public too often and I think it should draw the attention of some people. At Amazon engineering does own their products completely, which also means you have to be oncall one week every 2-3 months (that means 24/7 pending for any problems arising from them) depending on your team size. I personally don’t have a problem with this, but a lot do so I put it here, but now you are required to come 3 times a week to the office.