High Pressure, High Reward
High Pressure, High Reward
Amazon is incredibly frugal. Teams have very minimal resources and yet own significant pieces of functionality. My team, in particular, owns a significant feature within the mobile application that millions of customers interact with every day. Because of that, I’ve had the chance to deliver products of significant complexity and high visibility.
Amazon is also a very flat organization in which you own your own career progression. From my experience, that’s been a huge plus.
On-call and operations rotations can be pretty stressful. My team owns a Tier 1 service that is responsible for a rather large portion of Amazon’s business, and we are completely responsible for the upkeep and operations of this service. This means that someone from my two-pizza team must always be on-call for this service.
There is always a lot of work to be done. It can be kind of overwhelming at times.
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Software Development Engineer I
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Software Development Engineer I
Seattle, Washington, United StatesApril 1, 2025Round 1: OA. Cleared in November 2024. No word until February 2025 when I was told I was scheduled for interviews. A week later, they wrote back stating that email was sent "by mistake" and should not be considered. Another recruiter reached out in
Software Development Engineer I
Seattle, Washington, United StatesNovember 1, 2021The first round was a two-question online assessment. The second round was a virtual onsite with four rounds. Each round, the interviewer spent about 30 minutes covering leadership principle questions and left about 30 minutes for technical coding
