Great Starting Point
Great Starting Point
Good compensation at L4 level, slightly less so as you progress.
Incredibly dynamic work environment; you’ll learn something every day and you’ll develop an incredibly diverse array of skills. Amazon cares a lot about your skills writing tech documents and pitching ideas besides your technical skills.
Your work feels meaningful and impactful; projects are almost never cancelled, everything gets made out of a specific business need.
- Compensation can lag behind other companies as you progress.
- Lots of org-level politicking, depends heavily on the org.
- Work-life balance can be impacted negatively by oncall and late-night meetings due to time zone differences (heavily dependent on where you work from).
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Software Development Engineer
It seemed like I encountered one medium dynamic programming problem and one hard problem that could be solved with dynamic programming or some math trick. They also asked system design multiple-choice questions or similar style.
Software Development Engineer
Written test followed by two rounds of online technical interviews focused on Data Structures and Algorithms. The interviews also focused on projects, logic building, and computer science fundamentals, specifically DBMS, OS, and CN.
Software Development Engineer
Multiple recruiters reached out concurrently. They seemed pretty disorganized with tracking candidates. I ended up connecting with a great recruiter and did an online assessment (OA). It then took forever to get lined up for a full interview loop. T
Software Development Engineer
United StatesAugust 15, 2025It seemed like I encountered one medium dynamic programming problem and one hard problem that could be solved with dynamic programming or some math trick. They also asked system design multiple-choice questions or similar style.
Software Development Engineer
IndiaMarch 3, 2022Written test followed by two rounds of online technical interviews focused on Data Structures and Algorithms. The interviews also focused on projects, logic building, and computer science fundamentals, specifically DBMS, OS, and CN.
Software Development Engineer
United StatesOctober 30, 2024Multiple recruiters reached out concurrently. They seemed pretty disorganized with tracking candidates. I ended up connecting with a great recruiter and did an online assessment (OA). It then took forever to get lined up for a full interview loop. T
