Most rewarding experience if you buy into the culture
Most rewarding experience if you buy into the culture
I am an Amazonian and love it. I’ve learned more in 3 years here than I did in my previous 10 and am doing big things. Working at Amazon, you make customers happy, have full ownership over the initiative that you’re working on, and a lot of resources and support to back you up. Work for Amazon if you want to do big things.
The culture at Amazon can be consuming. Most of us love what we do, so it can be very intensely obsessive. This can be a challenge to balance with life outside work, but it certainly can be done if you prioritize well and have the backbone to say no.
Don’t fall into the traps of traditional enterprises. Some recent hires, such as Short Sandy Carter, have us pushing technologies instead of customer-driven outcomes, and that is a direction that could poison the culture if we’re not careful.
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Principal Solutions Architect
Unfortunately, my interview experience was disappointing. The interviewer seemed unprepared to conduct a well-rounded technical discussion. The questions were opaque and overly narrow, with the majority of the time spent drilling into a single topic—
Principal Solutions Architect
The interview process involved five rounds and a total of nine online interviews before the final verdict. The initial start was with an HR person who contacted me out of the blue. After the initial call, I was interviewed by the hiring manager and
Software Engineer
I had some miscommunication with the interviewer. He asked me a LeetCode-style question at first, then asked me to design a system around the problem. There were common LP questions, focused on learning and self-improvement.
Principal Solutions Architect
United StatesNovember 1, 2024Unfortunately, my interview experience was disappointing. The interviewer seemed unprepared to conduct a well-rounded technical discussion. The questions were opaque and overly narrow, with the majority of the time spent drilling into a single topic—
Principal Solutions Architect
NetherlandsOctober 1, 2021The interview process involved five rounds and a total of nine online interviews before the final verdict. The initial start was with an HR person who contacted me out of the blue. After the initial call, I was interviewed by the hiring manager and
Software Engineer
Irvine, California, United StatesMay 1, 2025I had some miscommunication with the interviewer. He asked me a LeetCode-style question at first, then asked me to design a system around the problem. There were common LP questions, focused on learning and self-improvement.
