Pros
Insurance and Benefits are good, if you take the initiative and find them for yourself because no one will tell you all the discounts and benefits you can get as an Amazon employee. The stock options are good, if you can stay long enough to "cash out" any of them. Average length of an amazon career...14 months.
Cons
They do NOT "hire and develop the best" (one of their slogans). They hire kids right out of college as managers that have never had a real job (that way, the kids are "molded" into the amazon mindset...treat the customers with the utmost respect, but treat your coworkers like the dog crap stuck to the bottom of your shoe; step all over it under it raises a "stench" or concern, then take a stick and fling it away as if it was never there). The other end of the spectrum is that they hire "temps" who do not have to follow policies "blue badges" have to. Policies such as the dress code, vulgarity and PDA are not enforced whatsoever. The "compensation" is a joke. Amazon rationalizes the pay to include discounts, stock options, VCP....variable compensation profits. I'll tell you how much I make an hour: $12.00. Do you know what I "earn" according to them? $17.48 an hour, based on my tenure and the previously mentioned "compensation". My family of four barely makes it from paycheck to paycheck, because I bring home an average of $7.85 an hour with all the deductions for insurance plus the usual taxes taken out. I work 40 plus hours a week at a very physical job ( the average associate walks 10 miles A DAY), and from October until the end of December, forget about having a life outside of Amazon. You will work 60 hour weeks and not be able to take vacation or personal time off (the blackout period) until December 26th. Merry Freaking Christmas.