Pros
Health insurance - Amazon provides employees with great health insurance (90% coverage for employee and family). Diversity - The company does have a lot of diversity, which is a pro in my opinion. Salary - Salary is competitive but golden era when stock price would double every year is far behind. Internal opportunities - Any employee has access to all openings (including for internal transfers only) and can do an informal internal loop to switch teams. One can go from AWS to Amazon Studios.
Cons
Talent management - HR works against employees and has a 6% unregretted attrition rate (which means firing people for no reason other than "raise the bar"). HR does zero effort to find new teams or to propose realistic development plans for employees. HR and Manager just want to collect data points so they can fire what they call "least effective", which is flagged with no objective metric. Work balance - some people work a lot (60/70h per week) while other people have nothing to do (I've seen people going to meeting rooms to watch netflix because the workload wasn't enough). So there is not sweet spot: either being overwhelmed (usually retail) or counting hours. Competitive environment - Because of their poor talent management, people are always backstabbing/stealing ideas/not giving credit because they have to create data points for themselves. No tools at AWS - AWS is run over spreadsheets and emails. Very few tools, and the ones that exist are not efficient at all. Probably 20-30% of the business side of AWS just do manual work because "AWS is scrappy and doesn't want to slow the business to adapt to an existing tool". Stupid as hell.