Learn valuable skills and work with smart people
Learn valuable skills and work with smart people
You will learn a lot. Amazon employees are some of the world's experts in distributed systems, building reliable services and programming best practices. The company's culture to insist on the highest standards means you will learn about these subjects, which are extremely useful in the field.
There is a lot of turnover. People come here to improve their CV and learn, then go somewhere else.
You will have to own your development in the company by chasing opportunities and going for them, because nobody will do that for you. There is a good chance you will change several managers in your time here.
You will be on-call, meaning one week every now and then you will have to be reachable and able to respond to outages.
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Software Development Engineer
The interviewers were great, and everyone made me feel welcome. It started with an OA, followed by four rounds of virtual onsite interviews. The interviews were of medium difficulty. One of them was similar to generating parentheses on LeetCode.
Software Development Engineer
Received an online assessment consisting of two LC questions and a behavioral section. Moved onto the final step, which consisted of three 1-hour long interview sessions. These sessions included behavioral and design questions, and one coding questi
Software Development Engineer
The process went fine. However, the interviewers who were engineers and managers seemed miserable and unhappy. Even their scripted answers felt like they weren't genuinely behind the responses they gave.
Software Development Engineer
New York, New York, United StatesJuly 1, 2022The interviewers were great, and everyone made me feel welcome. It started with an OA, followed by four rounds of virtual onsite interviews. The interviews were of medium difficulty. One of them was similar to generating parentheses on LeetCode.
Software Development Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United StatesNovember 17, 2024Received an online assessment consisting of two LC questions and a behavioral section. Moved onto the final step, which consisted of three 1-hour long interview sessions. These sessions included behavioral and design questions, and one coding questi
Software Development Engineer
United StatesDecember 8, 2021The process went fine. However, the interviewers who were engineers and managers seemed miserable and unhappy. Even their scripted answers felt like they weren't genuinely behind the responses they gave.
