Working at Amazon makes you miserable
Working at Amazon makes you miserable
Great start for new grads.
Cheap treatment of employees is good for stock.
Managers seem to like the manager-first culture.
Compensation mirage:
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80% of stock vests after 2 years (more than many people stay at the company).
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Amazon recalculates the value of your vesting shares (even if they were granted 2-3 years ago) each year and factors that into your "total compensation."
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Micromanagement.
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Software Engineers spend 80% of time on Dev-Ops.
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Health issues due to stress and intense deadlines.
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Amazon Interview Questions
Amazon Interview Experiences
Software Development Engineer
1. Online Assessment Interview Invite to schedule. 2. Hiring Manager Round 2/3 LPs and 2 LeetCode medium problems. 3. Interview with SDE II Half an hour with LPs, and the other half doing a coding question to write maintainable code. 4. Bar Rai
Software Development Engineer
After passing the Online Assessment, you then move on to the Final Loop Interviews, which consist of, but not necessarily in specific order: * Behavioral Interview * Technical Coding Interview (Leetcode style) * Low Level Design interview (OOP)
Software Development Engineer
It went well, with half an hour for leadership principles and the other half an hour for coding and system design. It’s a great experience overall. System design, they expect more clarity.
Software Development Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United StatesNovember 19, 20251. Online Assessment Interview Invite to schedule. 2. Hiring Manager Round 2/3 LPs and 2 LeetCode medium problems. 3. Interview with SDE II Half an hour with LPs, and the other half doing a coding question to write maintainable code. 4. Bar Rai
Software Development Engineer
United StatesNovember 18, 2025After passing the Online Assessment, you then move on to the Final Loop Interviews, which consist of, but not necessarily in specific order: * Behavioral Interview * Technical Coding Interview (Leetcode style) * Low Level Design interview (OOP)
Software Development Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United StatesNovember 8, 2025It went well, with half an hour for leadership principles and the other half an hour for coding and system design. It’s a great experience overall. System design, they expect more clarity.
