Great Place, But Career Plateaus Aplenty
Great Place, But Career Plateaus Aplenty
They share their "Peculiar Ways" up front, and they follow them.
It truly is a meritocracy for the most part.
It was great working with so many extremely talented people.
Culture of secrecy. Great when you realize that nobody at Amazon will ever care about anything you order from them. Horrible when you need to deal with other organizations within the company, or even your own product unit.
Advancing from QAE2 to QAE3 is difficult. Advancing from QAE3 to Principal QAE? Forget it.
Your culture of secrecy leads to the leaks. Tear down the walls.
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Software Engineer
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.
