Pros
Amazon offers really great benefits such as free resources at education, great teams to work with, innovative technology, a decent time off structure (aside from PTO values, I'll get into that in the cons), and helping you grow in your career.
Cons
Amazon time off is broken down into 3 aspects. UTP (Unpaid time off), PTO (paid time off), and vacation time. Amazon PTO is only 48 hours a year. This is simply not enough. You get plenty of UPT, but it seems a bit heavy handed to only offer 48 hours out of a working year. 48 hours is a joke out of a 40 hour work week (roughly 2000 working hours). 96 hours of PTO should be the norm. The raises are either non existent for L4 and above or very low. As an L3 we are rated on our performance every year. Even if we exceed the bar of our performance, the raise is usually anywhere from 2 to if you're lucky 3 percent. The amount of work and responsibilities in IT does not equate the raises given or the pay in general. The pay isn't terrible, but it is by no means competitive.
