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 In many cases, pragmatism has been replaced by bureaucracy.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
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.
