A great place to work with a strong customer focus
A great place to work with a strong customer focus
Amazon.com is a great company to work for. Features are always designed with the customer in mind. Customer trust and loyalty are high.
Very short release cycles (less than one month) mean that your work has an immediate impact. Many managers were SDEs at some point, so they have reasonable expectations.
It is easy to switch to different teams working on completely different technologies (you must remain with a team for at least a year, but are free to move afterwards). There are opportunities to move from SDE to management.
Pager rotation - Building a large-scale web service with tons of customers means that any bugs encountered need to be fixed immediately by the responsible team. Quick release cycles exacerbate this. Rotations are typically split evenly across the SDEs of a team.
No advice for management.
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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.
