Great avenue for solving tech problems, but work culture is horrible
Great avenue for solving tech problems, but work culture is horrible
- Good compensation.
- Interesting problems to solve, including the opportunity to work on scalable solutions.
- Satisfaction in terms of making a positive impact on customers.
- Easier to move internally within teams compared to similar tech companies.
- Too much bureaucracy and unnecessary process when trying to get work done with external teams.
Priorities don't seem to align with key leadership principles of customer obsession and ownership. If your team has multiple external dependencies, projects move slower.
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The "Bar Raiser" is over-hyped at Amazon. I have come across below-par engineers in terms of both technical skills and leadership principles.
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Below average perks and holidays.
- Recognition of prior industry experience for new employees, and take it into account for Sr. SDE hire or promotion.
- Practice what you preach in terms of leadership principles.
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A pretty standard "big tech" interview. It begins with a LeetCode screening interview, automated through a service. For the final loop: * A LeetCode-style coding interview. * A system design interview. * A couple of behavioral interviews. There i
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It was a standard one-round OA and five-round onsite. Each question was a LeetCode medium/hard. It went relatively smoothly, and the engineers were quite helpful. It took them a week to come to a decision, and from there on, it would be conversations
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They had two rounds of technical and behavioral interviews. You had to respond with Amazon's leadership principles. The technical questions were LeetCode mediums that you had 60 minutes to solve.
Software Development Engineer
Austin, Texas, United StatesFebruary 22, 2025A pretty standard "big tech" interview. It begins with a LeetCode screening interview, automated through a service. For the final loop: * A LeetCode-style coding interview. * A system design interview. * A couple of behavioral interviews. There i
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Austin, Texas, United StatesSeptember 1, 2023It was a standard one-round OA and five-round onsite. Each question was a LeetCode medium/hard. It went relatively smoothly, and the engineers were quite helpful. It took them a week to come to a decision, and from there on, it would be conversations
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Austin, Texas, United StatesMay 28, 2023They had two rounds of technical and behavioral interviews. You had to respond with Amazon's leadership principles. The technical questions were LeetCode mediums that you had 60 minutes to solve.
