I have been at Amazon for ~6 months as an MLE. Pay is great. There was a pretty clear going rate when I was applying, and Amazon came in significantly above this. The interview process was fairly brutal (final interview was 6 hrs!), but the flipside of this is that once you are in, you get a lot of trust and support. They seem committed to helping you succeed, and no one is looking over your shoulder or micromanaging. I work remotely and have as much freedom to set my work schedule as I did when working at a smaller company. My managers feel like they are there to facilitate my work rather than policing it.
The biggest con I can think of right now is that the scale of the company makes it feel like it's a bit out of my hands if the decision is made to cut staff from a certain team.
I'm not sure how much personal influence I have on overall staffing decisions that directly affect me. But this may be true of any larger company.
My attitude is that I'm enjoying the ride for however long it lasts, and if I deliver quality work and show that I can be flexible, there should be other opportunities within the company even if there is a change in strategic direction.
The interview included an ML quiz, DSA coding, background experience, and finally, a behavioral section assessing alignment with 14 leadership principles. It was fun, but also daunting, as the ML quiz was more difficult to navigate, with deep questio
An AWS recruiter reached out seven days after I applied to set up an introductory call. This was followed up with a HackerRank assessment shortly thereafter. I finished the first question but not the second. I then moved onto a phone screen, which I
Passed a relatively easy online coding test and then went straight to a final round. Had four kind of odd interviews, with lots of time spent on "gotcha" behavioral questions related to the so-called leadership principles. The technical parts of th
The interview included an ML quiz, DSA coding, background experience, and finally, a behavioral section assessing alignment with 14 leadership principles. It was fun, but also daunting, as the ML quiz was more difficult to navigate, with deep questio
An AWS recruiter reached out seven days after I applied to set up an introductory call. This was followed up with a HackerRank assessment shortly thereafter. I finished the first question but not the second. I then moved onto a phone screen, which I
Passed a relatively easy online coding test and then went straight to a final round. Had four kind of odd interviews, with lots of time spent on "gotcha" behavioral questions related to the so-called leadership principles. The technical parts of th