Pros
The brand attracts some of the best and brightest in the business. It is truly a pleasure to work with most of people at the ground level doing the actual work. The brand also opens doors with customers that otherwise might be more difficult to reach.
Cons
The rot starts at the management level, hiring standards and promotion standards work to ensure the people getting promoted are more talk than skill or action. Politically driven changes/reorgs across the org are a constant distraction and waste a lot of effort/time. And since managers are contributing to the decisions on who stays and who is laid off, the problem continues to grow because of course the toxic managers are saving themselves. And by their own admission, Amazon is cheap - in their perks and compensation, cheap in resourcing, too cheap to offer their managers any training, too cheap to put systems in place to help make work efficient. They finally got Zoom and MS Office in 2025, before that it was using internally developed tools that barely worked. Seriously, if you want to work on anything strategic, don't come here.