Someone once told me that "2-3 years at Amazon equals an MBA," and after three years at AWS, I do think that is more or less true.
At AWS, you get to work with the smartest people in the industry. As an AWS Solutions Architect, you get to help both internal teams and customers with some of the hardest challenges in the tech domain.
You will have chances to move and try roles within Amazon and different teams.
If you want to succeed long-term at Amazon, you have to make sacrifices. You will have long days, and to be able to keep the energy up, you need to be the type of person that gets triggered by solving hard challenges.
Salary and benefits are not at the high end. If you want to keep talent and hire and develop the best, compensation needs to be increased.
Phone screen (including tech skills) - 1 hour On-site interview (loop) - 5 interviewers covering behavior and tech Questions about your experiences (focus on behaviors) - 5 hours with Solutions Architects, managers, and a Head. Most of them are fri
Initial interview and manager interview. The recruiter's follow-up process was quite weak. The feedback process too. They need to pay more attention to details. Regardless of whether an offer is formally extended or not, this can lead to the candi
When discussing Amazon's Leadership Principles, you can easily spot a question that interviewers would never ask in an Amazon interview. The real questions are behavioral. These questions are looking for evidence from your past behaviors as a way t
Phone screen (including tech skills) - 1 hour On-site interview (loop) - 5 interviewers covering behavior and tech Questions about your experiences (focus on behaviors) - 5 hours with Solutions Architects, managers, and a Head. Most of them are fri
Initial interview and manager interview. The recruiter's follow-up process was quite weak. The feedback process too. They need to pay more attention to details. Regardless of whether an offer is formally extended or not, this can lead to the candi
When discussing Amazon's Leadership Principles, you can easily spot a question that interviewers would never ask in an Amazon interview. The real questions are behavioral. These questions are looking for evidence from your past behaviors as a way t