Ex-Amazonian here, few things to consider. The following things are highly dependent on the team you are ending up working for though. a, Amazon is frugal Mea

Ex-Amazonian here, few things to consider. The following things are highly dependent on the team you are ending up working for though. a, Amazon is frugal Meaning that your workplace is looking like a grayscale picture of the surface of Mars. Chairs are pretty cheap, desks are wooden doors (just a gently reminder that our beloved CEO was poor once and he could not afford to have a nice office). Amazon encourages employees to use their own equipment by not giving out nice work devices. When I started to work, I got a used laptop that was falling apart it had 2G of ram and slow hard drive. After few years it was upgraded to a non-SSD laptop with 4G of RAM. There was an internal thread about this, people were raging (rightfully though). Amazon does not give you a credit card, regardless if you need to travel abroad. You also have a very tight budget that you can spend every year. The salaries are laughable compare to other companies, their approach is that people are going to stay because they like the company not because their work is appreciated. b, Amazon is a high risk low reward company As a software engineer you are responsible for your code at the extent that if you are causing an outage (even a very small one) you might be excluded from promotions for a year and you have to explain it to a set of people how things went sideways and how you are going to prevent this situation in the future. If you are doing good and all of your changes are great, you might even keep your job. Well, no promotions though, for that you need to befriend a set of people who are going to choose who gets promoted. Promotions don't really have anything to do with your performance, those mostly based on how good your manager is selling you to other managers. I usually recommend Amazon as a CV value booster company, for senior engineers it does not have too much value, you can just work for Google or Microsoft (please do not troll me with anti-MS agenda) with similar recognition but way better salaries and work environment.