Amazon is a great company to work for. You will be able to change the world and constantly work on cutting-edge technology, building great systems that are important to customers.
The operational load can be quite high.
AWS believes fully in DevOps, which is generally great, but comes with the downside of periodically working long days and even nights when there are operational events.
Aggressively work to fight operational load. I know management does this, but sometimes loses focus compared to developing features and new capabilities needed by customers. While we generally want to be doing new, cool features, when operational tickets are frequently firing, it impacts people's personal lives.
The recruiter reached out to schedule a five-round interview, with heavy stress on Amazon's transparent principles, leadership, and others. Surprisingly, barring one, nobody turned their videos on during the interview, which felt disrespectful to th
The interview process was very long, and you need to prepare well for it to ensure you are aligned with all the leadership principles. Amazon takes it very seriously, and they send you documentation on how to prepare for the interview.
Phone screening, preliminary interview, set of 5 interviews. Interviewers were very professional. The overall experience for me was neutral because recruiters failed to communicate effectively. I had to remind them three times, and I received feedb
The recruiter reached out to schedule a five-round interview, with heavy stress on Amazon's transparent principles, leadership, and others. Surprisingly, barring one, nobody turned their videos on during the interview, which felt disrespectful to th
The interview process was very long, and you need to prepare well for it to ensure you are aligned with all the leadership principles. Amazon takes it very seriously, and they send you documentation on how to prepare for the interview.
Phone screening, preliminary interview, set of 5 interviews. Interviewers were very professional. The overall experience for me was neutral because recruiters failed to communicate effectively. I had to remind them three times, and I received feedb