Good Place To Work For A While
Good Place To Work For A While
It's a big company, so you have the freedom to move between teams and areas. There are a lot of interesting projects across the company to work on. The pay is good.
Your work life largely depends on your manager, so it can vary from team to team, but burnout is common.
Your pay will not go up even if the company is talking about how well it's doing.
Expect your RSUs to slow down greatly around 5 years.
As a developer at Amazon, you are in charge of the whole lifecycle. Everyone handles design, development, monitoring, testing, and maintenance.
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Amazon Interview Experiences
Software Development Engineer II
Recruiter Screening: A 30-minute call with a recruiter to go over the role and fit. Online Assessment: Two coding questions and workplace style behavioral questions. Virtual Final Round: Three coding questions and one System Design question.
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
A recruiter reached out on LinkedIn asking about my willingness to engage in the Amazon recruitment process. After I said yes, I was given an email link to a HackerRank challenge. This challenge had to be completed within 90 minutes of starting it.
Software Development Engineer II
Arlington, Virginia, United StatesMay 1, 2025Recruiter Screening: A 30-minute call with a recruiter to go over the role and fit. Online Assessment: Two coding questions and workplace style behavioral questions. Virtual Final Round: Three coding questions and one System Design question.
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.
Software Development Engineer II
Washington, District of Columbia, United StatesOctober 1, 2021A recruiter reached out on LinkedIn asking about my willingness to engage in the Amazon recruitment process. After I said yes, I was given an email link to a HackerRank challenge. This challenge had to be completed within 90 minutes of starting it.
