Pay is good; learning curve is steep
Pay is good; learning curve is steep
Money! Lots of autonomy. Almost every engineer at the company is smart and competent. People are generally helpful and kind.
All applications run at a ridiculously large scale, which makes requirements extremely complex. Microservices everywhere!
It can be exhausting. Also, on-call is not fun and can encroach on your home time.
More focus on building quality software so we can spend less time on call.
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Software Development Engineer
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
Software Development Engineer
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
Software Development Engineer
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
Software Development Engineer
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
Software Development Engineer
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.
