AWS gives its engineers a tremendous amount of responsibility and empowers them to do whatever it takes to meet customer needs. As a Senior Software Development Engineer, you are responsible for requirements analysis, architecture design, software design, project management, software implementation, testing, and operations for teams of 4-20 engineers. The services you are responsible for could have thousands to hundreds of thousands of customers and involve internet-scale parallel computing problems.
There is no net. At AWS, you have the opportunity to create highly visible systems that many well-known companies build their business on. If you break something you created, it's on you to discover the problem, diagnose it, and fix it before it causes pain for customers.
This can be stressful at times because you effectively "own the business", at least from a technical perspective.
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