The bar is high; you'll be working with a lot of great people. Every organization has a few bad apples, but at Amazon, I found there were very few (at least within Brisbane, Australia).
You'll learn a lot from many experienced people. When you have questions, you'll also have access to someone with deep expertise who can assist or answer them.
The Leadership Principles, although they may seem cult-like at first, are part of what makes Amazon tick. Senior leadership invests heavily in these, and they become a very useful framework for decision-making, both within Amazon and outside of it.
Almost all teams have an on-call roster. This may involve getting paged at 3 AM.
It can feel isolating from the real world. The way Amazon does things is different to other companies. You'll rarely use Stack Overflow, Google, or public tooling; instead, you'll most often use an internal Amazon clone.
Online assessment: 2 coding questions and some following work style surveys. Virtual onsite 2 months later: 4 rounds of technical interviews with behavioral questions in each round. 3 of them included coding questions. The other round featured syste
Online assessment that takes approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes to complete. It includes two HackerRank questions, both quite difficult and related to string manipulation. Then, a set of personality questions based on Amazon's core values.
Two technical coding questions on DSA in an Amazon-based setting. Followed by behavioral questions on how you would engage and handle confrontation and problems in the office. Finally, a few mini-games to test technical skills.
Online assessment: 2 coding questions and some following work style surveys. Virtual onsite 2 months later: 4 rounds of technical interviews with behavioral questions in each round. 3 of them included coding questions. The other round featured syste
Online assessment that takes approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes to complete. It includes two HackerRank questions, both quite difficult and related to string manipulation. Then, a set of personality questions based on Amazon's core values.
Two technical coding questions on DSA in an Amazon-based setting. Followed by behavioral questions on how you would engage and handle confrontation and problems in the office. Finally, a few mini-games to test technical skills.