Talent Wasted On Support
Talent Wasted On Support
Amazon hires talented people. If you're lucky, you may work on interesting technology.
Good customer-facing policies.
Terrible work-life balance. Development engineers get no respect. Engineers spend most of their time dealing with operational support for old technology components instead of building things. The company is obscenely tight-fisted (frugal). Employee churn is high. Back-loaded stock vesting schedule - the company expects you to quit before you get your stock.
Try to put some of the immense effort that goes into hiring great people into keeping them. It's stupid to hire good people who leave after a year because of internal idiocy.
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Software Development Engineer II
Started with an online assessment and then, upon clearing it, moved on to a four-round on-site interview loop. This included three rounds with the team and one round with the bar raiser.
Software Development Engineer II
5 rounds of interviews: 1. OA (2 Medium/Hard Questions along with some Work Related Assessment which tested design related concepts) 2. HLD 3. DSA 4. LLD 5. Bar Raiser Technically, the questions were of medium difficulty and with good polish, you s
Software Development Engineer II
Normal format with one OA and four rounds: two coding, one system design, and one low-level system design. Medium to hard level LeetCode questions. The low-level system design round had a common question requiring the use of the decorator pattern.
Software Development Engineer II
United StatesSeptember 2, 2025Started with an online assessment and then, upon clearing it, moved on to a four-round on-site interview loop. This included three rounds with the team and one round with the bar raiser.
Software Development Engineer II
Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaSeptember 1, 20255 rounds of interviews: 1. OA (2 Medium/Hard Questions along with some Work Related Assessment which tested design related concepts) 2. HLD 3. DSA 4. LLD 5. Bar Raiser Technically, the questions were of medium difficulty and with good polish, you s
Software Development Engineer II
San Jose, California, United StatesJuly 15, 2025Normal format with one OA and four rounds: two coding, one system design, and one low-level system design. Medium to hard level LeetCode questions. The low-level system design round had a common question requiring the use of the decorator pattern.
