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
I received an email with the link for an online assessment that I had one week to complete. I had to solve two problems in under 90 minutes on HackerRank.
Software Development Engineer II
There were four rounds of technical questions. In each one, it would start with one or two behavioral type questions. During that, the candidate is expected to answer using the STAR method. Then, it is followed by the technical problem statement. Du
Software Development Engineer II
The interview was a 4-hour virtual session, split into four 1-hour segments. Each session included technical and cultural fit questions. Of the four sessions: * One focused on system design. * The other three covered: * Algorithms and data str
Software Development Engineer II
August 23, 2026I received an email with the link for an online assessment that I had one week to complete. I had to solve two problems in under 90 minutes on HackerRank.
Software Development Engineer II
United Arab EmiratesDecember 13, 2023There were four rounds of technical questions. In each one, it would start with one or two behavioral type questions. During that, the candidate is expected to answer using the STAR method. Then, it is followed by the technical problem statement. Du
Software Development Engineer II
Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaOctober 1, 2024The interview was a 4-hour virtual session, split into four 1-hour segments. Each session included technical and cultural fit questions. Of the four sessions: * One focused on system design. * The other three covered: * Algorithms and data str
