Smart People, Lost Culture
Smart People, Lost Culture
Amazon employees are a lot of very smart people who are happy to work with you, and who genuinely care. The company culture emphasizes company values, or "leadership principles," including customer obsession. For the most part, the culture is extremely pragmatic.
Increasingly becoming cold and corporate. Standards have slipped, and much of the company culture that made people love Amazon in the beginning is diluted or gone, even at top levels of leadership. In many cases, pragmatism has been replaced by bureaucracy.
Work expectations depend on teams, and I've been lucky, but some teams do end up significantly overworking their employees.
The flywheel is broken. Amazon needs to go back to the basics that made it what it is.
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Software Development Engineer II
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. Phone interview + loop of 4 coding, 1 system design. Coding questions were medium LeetCode-adjacent questions, followed by questions on leadership principles. The interviewers were nice, but the final lo
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The interview process I have attended is about 3 rounds. The check is about data structures and understanding of algorithms only. Microservices and other things are not tested during the process. -- Hacker Earth (Round -1) -- Technical Interview (Ro
Software Development Engineer II
I had an online assessment which was on the easier side. I performed well enough to earn an onsite interview two to three weeks later. This onsite interview involved four one-hour interviews, all conducted in a single day with fifteen-minute breaks i
Software Development Engineer II
Austin, Texas, United StatesSeptember 23, 2026I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. Phone interview + loop of 4 coding, 1 system design. Coding questions were medium LeetCode-adjacent questions, followed by questions on leadership principles. The interviewers were nice, but the final lo
Software Development Engineer II
IndiaMay 1, 2022The interview process I have attended is about 3 rounds. The check is about data structures and understanding of algorithms only. Microservices and other things are not tested during the process. -- Hacker Earth (Round -1) -- Technical Interview (Ro
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Denver, Colorado, United StatesApril 1, 2022I had an online assessment which was on the easier side. I performed well enough to earn an onsite interview two to three weeks later. This onsite interview involved four one-hour interviews, all conducted in a single day with fifteen-minute breaks i
