Ruthless managers and unfriendly coworkers
Ruthless managers and unfriendly coworkers
Amazon is a customer-centric company. Whatever you do at Amazon, you should think of your customer.
Nobody will help you with anything. Everybody tries to find a way to promotion, and one person from a team can be promoted during a review period. This basically makes everybody hate each other. You may not even find a colleague to go to lunch with.
Even worse, if you are a good engineer, everybody will be looking to see you fail or creating an image of failure for you. Thus, everybody tries to use politics as much as they can.
Survival of the fittest doesn't make any sense if you have too much politics.
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Software Development Engineer II
Initial coding challenge, immediately followed by a 4-round onsite. There was no noticeable "bar raiser" interview; all interviewers were from the same organization. The interviews consisted of two parts: * Discussing experiences (leadership pri
Software Development Engineer II
A phone interview with a 3/5 difficulty coding exercise. Four on-site interviews: * Three 4/5 difficulty coding. * One 5/5 difficulty coding. A software design interview.
Software Development Engineer II
Four virtual interviews, each lasting one hour. All of them included a number of STAR-type questions. Three of them involved coding/whiteboarding. One of them included a system design component.
Software Development Engineer II
Seattle, Washington, United StatesJuly 1, 2022Initial coding challenge, immediately followed by a 4-round onsite. There was no noticeable "bar raiser" interview; all interviewers were from the same organization. The interviews consisted of two parts: * Discussing experiences (leadership pri
Software Development Engineer II
Guadalajara, Jalisco, MexicoDecember 3, 2024A phone interview with a 3/5 difficulty coding exercise. Four on-site interviews: * Three 4/5 difficulty coding. * One 5/5 difficulty coding. A software design interview.
Software Development Engineer II
United StatesMay 1, 2022Four virtual interviews, each lasting one hour. All of them included a number of STAR-type questions. Three of them involved coding/whiteboarding. One of them included a system design component.
