Smart people, terrible work-life balance
Smart people, terrible work-life balance
- Agile, fast-paced development
- Smart, supportive teammates
- You will learn a lot very quickly
- Lots of stock, but base pay is on the lower end for a FAANG company
- Company prioritizes fast deliverables over quality.
- Terrible work-life balance; it was very normal to work 12-15 hour days to keep up with the heavy workload. I didn't meet a single engineer there who hadn't burned out at some point.
- Unclear long-term goals and lots of pivoting, especially after pivoting to AI.
- Stack ranking system is unfair, not data-driven, and forces cutthroat competition between teammates because management has to meet a quota of employees to PIP every year.
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Software Development Engineer II
The interviews were just as expected, part behaviour questions and another part coding. In the last interview, there was no coding part but instead an architecture problem. The behaviour questions are just as important as the rest and require candi
Software Development Engineer II
Multiple recruiters reached out to me about interviewing with Amazon. One recruiter informed me that they had fully remote positions available and that relocation would not be required. Consequently, I began the online coding assessment for these pos
Software Development Engineer II
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
SpainMarch 27, 2022The interviews were just as expected, part behaviour questions and another part coding. In the last interview, there was no coding part but instead an architecture problem. The behaviour questions are just as important as the rest and require candi
Software Development Engineer II
United StatesJuly 1, 2022Multiple recruiters reached out to me about interviewing with Amazon. One recruiter informed me that they had fully remote positions available and that relocation would not be required. Consequently, I began the online coding assessment for these pos
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
