The recruiter wasn't very respectful, scheduling outside of provided availability.

Some people from the Amazon side didn't show up.

A few interviewers clearly didn't want to be there, and their pathetic Chime application was only contributing to a bad experience with poor video quality and audio glitches (really, interviewer hearing their own voice echo in 2022?).

The whole process is very one-sided, like it is a privilege to even talk to them (it's not).

Then the loop with a bunch of random people injected into the process.

After spending like 9-10 hours on them, one has a very vague idea of the team and daily process, but has a very good read on the company culture in general.

The technical interview questions were very basic and shallow; the other side just wanted to hear the required keywords instead of having an interactive system design session and diving deep into the thought process.

To a point where an interviewer was out of their league and couldn't even follow the advanced terminology.

Yes, everything one can find on their PIP culture online is true.

It's not a company one would invest years of their time in.

Scale a read/write path of a DB.

Migrate an existing distributed system to the cloud.