Pathetic work-life balance and career growth
Pathetic work-life balance and career growth
- Pays above average.
- Learn a lot.
- Work with smart colleagues, mostly.
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Career growth is super slow. With average tenure in Amazon less than 1.5 years, it's hard to talk about promotion with a manager or get feedback from peers when they are joining or leaving so fast.
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Work-life balance might affect your health in the long run. Employees are treated as disposable. Too many people resign due to burnout.
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Office politics - Even though you might work hard, less smart people who know managers are promoted first. HR policies are such that they indirectly promote this culture by removing technical assessors from the promo process.
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Made it to the interview loop for an SDE 2 role within the ML team. Was mostly asked LC medium questions, but fumbled it because I decided to have the 5 interviews scheduled all on the same day as opposed to split over two days 😵💫
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Online assessment for 1.5 hours. Final interview: 4 rounds with 1 system design. Focus on Amazon Leadership Principles and LeetCode basic concepts. System design was on how to create a centralized logging system.
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I am a Master's student and received a direct call from a recruiter through LinkedIn. (Direct onsite) The interview process consists of five rounds: * Three coding rounds * One system design round * One round with the Hiring Manager You have the o
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Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaDecember 10, 2025Made it to the interview loop for an SDE 2 role within the ML team. Was mostly asked LC medium questions, but fumbled it because I decided to have the 5 interviews scheduled all on the same day as opposed to split over two days 😵💫
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Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaFebruary 1, 2021Online assessment for 1.5 hours. Final interview: 4 rounds with 1 system design. Focus on Amazon Leadership Principles and LeetCode basic concepts. System design was on how to create a centralized logging system.
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San Francisco, California, United StatesAugust 1, 2021I am a Master's student and received a direct call from a recruiter through LinkedIn. (Direct onsite) The interview process consists of five rounds: * Three coding rounds * One system design round * One round with the Hiring Manager You have the o
