Small teams, ability to innovate, interesting problems, customer impact, respect for work/life balance (at least in SF office), quality colleagues.
Customer obsession sometimes comes at the expense of employee quality of life. If you inherit a buggy system and get stuck on-call often, things can be bleak.
Benefits are subpar. For example, they only match 401k contributions at 50% up to 6% of your salary, and you don't actually get that unless you stick around for 3 years.
On the other hand, they are proud that they offer the same benefits to people who work in fulfillment centers. So, you can be happy that the company is egalitarian while regretting that other tech workers are getting a few thousand more a year in untaxed retirement money than you are.
I really buy into all of Amazon's Leadership Principles. However, remember that Customer Obsession can't come at the expense of employee sanity and happiness, otherwise the only people you'll be able to hire won't be able to make customers happy.
The coding assessment link was sent. I completed the first problem with no issues. For the second problem, I encountered issues with their assessment program and had to write workaround code to get it to compile properly. I video-interviewed with fo
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.
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
The coding assessment link was sent. I completed the first problem with no issues. For the second problem, I encountered issues with their assessment program and had to write workaround code to get it to compile properly. I video-interviewed with fo
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.
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