Vantaggi
Good pay Chances of internal transfer to different teams
Svantaggi
Lack of transparency, engineers are put on 'dev-plan' without even notifying them. Goals keep on changing. Suddenly some new task comes up with a tight deadline, and everything is put on hold. Lots of meetings, most of which are wasted in discussing unnecessary mundane things. Work within the parallel universe of amazon internal technologies and frameworks. I probably have written only a few thousand lines of code in more than a year. Most if the projects are basically refactors, migration from one framework to another. I know a few developers who have spent more than 6 months without writing any code: basically spending time in configurations, jsons and doing things with other amazon internal tools. Some of the projects look like they are being done just for the heck of it. Perfectly working code gets re-written to use some other 'internal framework' for no apparent reason. Of course, we are paid to do this, but its not at all motivating.