Brutal 80+ hour weeks since the day I joined over 3 years ago
Brutal 80+ hour weeks since the day I joined over 3 years ago
Lots of opportunity to learn and evolve professionally.
Zero work-life balance on AWS. No culture either. Management makes sure you feel 100% disposable at all times. Churn is so high that they have an imaginary high bar which they just can't maintain because mgmt is pushed to put people in development plans every quarter. What ends up happening is periodic hiring blitzes to get anyone they can to close gaps.
Base salary caps are much lower than other FANNG.
Stop pushing people on weekends and after hours.
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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.
