On-call is not sustainable
On-call is not sustainable
Lots of learning possibilities, and very easy to move internally in the company (sometimes even encouraged after 1-2 years), so plenty of possibilities to touch various technologies.
On-call is the downside at Amazon, especially at AWS. Certain sub-teams are overloaded by the on-call. Working 24/7 is not fun, and this becomes unsustainable when the team is overloaded with tickets and the on-call takes time from normal work hours as well (in addition to your "normal" on-call rotation).
You should care about your employees more and take immediate action on on-call when running a team. For example:
- Hire some SREs for on-call.
- Hire various teams in different parts of the globe to cover time zones.
24/7 is unsustainable.
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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)
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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.
