It's an okay company to work for. I was there for 2 years. There's no work-life balance and no future for DBAs
It's an okay company to work for. I was there for 2 years. There's no work-life balance and no future for DBAs
A lot of intelligent people are around. You can learn about high-concurrency systems, scaling, and troubleshooting them. It is truly a customer-obsessed company, but not an employee-obsessed one. There are lots of projects. Pay is decent.
No work-life balance. Growth opportunities are very limited. You will get less time and exposure to learn new features for Oracle DBA.
This frugal concept makes your chances slim to learn new stuff and features. Mostly DBA time goes into moving the database from one box to another due to hardware issues.
Clearly, there is no future for DBAs and Support Engineers in Amazon.
Have better hardware and don't think employees are liabilities. Those are assets.
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It was good, but they didn't respond to me for a long time after 14 days. I asked them why, but they didn't respond back.
Product Manager - Technical
First round: Hiring manager screening. This covers leadership principles important for the job. Final round: Five interviews with a writing assessment. Each round covers around three leadership principles. All interviews are behavioral.
Software Engineer
Initial phone call with a recruiter, followed by a 90-minute coding assignment. This consisted of standard LeetCode-style algorithm and data structures problems, loosely related to the specific role and easy to prepare for by using normal resources.
Software Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United StatesNovember 20, 2025It was good, but they didn't respond to me for a long time after 14 days. I asked them why, but they didn't respond back.
Product Manager - Technical
Seattle, Washington, United StatesNovember 20, 2025First round: Hiring manager screening. This covers leadership principles important for the job. Final round: Five interviews with a writing assessment. Each round covers around three leadership principles. All interviews are behavioral.
Software Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United StatesNovember 19, 2025Initial phone call with a recruiter, followed by a 90-minute coding assignment. This consisted of standard LeetCode-style algorithm and data structures problems, loosely related to the specific role and easy to prepare for by using normal resources.
