Through the meat-grinder
Through the meat-grinder
The company has some amazing engineers and a few good development managers.
They'll provide nice new Macs for work as well.
It's impossible to advance with the limited number of grade levels; senior management really doesn't want people to be promoted to any of them. There's very high turnover of SDEs. Give serious consideration to not working here if you are mid-career.
Be honest that you only want mercenaries. If you set this expectation early, people won't expect to be able to grow their careers and won't leave so quickly.
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Amazon HR reached out to me. I took the OA test first and passed it. Then, we scheduled a phone interview. The interview took a long time, as no interviewers were available at the beginning.
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In a word, difficult. Lots of prep required. Bar raiser interview was the most difficult of them all. They should just call the bar raiser interview the boss-level interview.
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Easy overall. These were typical medium LeetCode questions. There was no dynamic programming. The questions mainly involved binary trees and array manipulation. For the behavioral portion, you just need to study Amazon principles and talk about how y
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Seattle, Washington, United StatesApril 1, 2025Amazon HR reached out to me. I took the OA test first and passed it. Then, we scheduled a phone interview. The interview took a long time, as no interviewers were available at the beginning.
Senior Software Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United StatesJune 1, 2021In a word, difficult. Lots of prep required. Bar raiser interview was the most difficult of them all. They should just call the bar raiser interview the boss-level interview.
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Seattle, Washington, United StatesJanuary 6, 2024Easy overall. These were typical medium LeetCode questions. There was no dynamic programming. The questions mainly involved binary trees and array manipulation. For the behavioral portion, you just need to study Amazon principles and talk about how y
