Amazon created and maintains a useful framework for quick decision-making, self-development, and other useful career skills.
Your first mini-project when onboarding is basically to learn (or refresh) on these skills and grow yourself as an asset before you begin doing real engineering. This time alone is a long-term benefit to you, regardless of whether you succeed or stay at Amazon.
You get immense autonomy and trust to decide your own path to success. Your managers set a vision for what success looks like in the future, Amazon provides a loose framework for how work is done at Amazon, and from there you create your own plan and manage your own time. It's liberating.
Some folks may find the autonomy to actually be ambiguity, and may want more structure than Amazon would like to give.
A recruiter sent me an OA, and even though I didn't attend it yet, she told me I failed. After some research, they noticed they screened my previous OA result. I don't like this lack of a system.
First, there was the recruiter interview to gather some information. This was followed by five "on-site remote" rounds of average difficulty, although some interviewers performed poorly. I was denied and promised feedback, but was ultimately ghoste
Typical Amazon procedure: a recruiter reaches out. This time, instead of just clicking the delete button, I was actually intrigued with the team: their LEO satellite group. I pretty much breezed through the HR interview, and then proceeded to the f
A recruiter sent me an OA, and even though I didn't attend it yet, she told me I failed. After some research, they noticed they screened my previous OA result. I don't like this lack of a system.
First, there was the recruiter interview to gather some information. This was followed by five "on-site remote" rounds of average difficulty, although some interviewers performed poorly. I was denied and promised feedback, but was ultimately ghoste
Typical Amazon procedure: a recruiter reaches out. This time, instead of just clicking the delete button, I was actually intrigued with the team: their LEO satellite group. I pretty much breezed through the HR interview, and then proceeded to the f