A great place to work if you can get through the initial fire drills
A great place to work if you can get through the initial fire drills
Innovation, innovation, innovation. Work hard. Have fun. Make history. It truly still is "day 1" at Amazon.
Amazon loves to try new things, and we give people room to fail. Failure is important if one learns from the mistakes. And every now and then, great new ideas are born.
Look at Web Services. Look at things like Mechanical Turk. These are awesome, awesome projects to work on.
Amazon has some of the smartest people in the industry. Think of what you can do when you are together with so many great minds!
The amount of work is often borderline insane, and we have a tendency to burn out people. We need to watch this.
Watch attrition. Too often, people burn out too early in the process (e.g., after less than 1 year).
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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.
