Draining Pips, Lack Empathy
Draining Pips, Lack Empathy
AWS might be good, but you feel like you're always stressed out, even when there is no work. The PIP culture is draining, and you feel enslaved by their harsh policies. It sometimes feels quite dehumanizing. Maybe that's why not many people stay for long.
Lack of empathy with employees. Frupidity culture. Slow, politics, no more competent engineers as in the previous decade.
Most managers have no idea what's going on in their teams. They hide behind fluency and buzzwords. Very few managers know what they're doing.
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Software Development Engineer II (SDEII)
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
Software Engineer Intern
It was a 1-hour interview consisting of 30 minutes of behavioral and 30 minutes of technical questioning. The technical part was easy enough. The challenge was to talk about past experience and projects to align with their requirements.
Software Developer
The first phase was standard behavioral questions. Just try to align them with Amazon's beliefs. After that, there were three rounds of technical interviews that I found to become more and more challenging.
Software Development Engineer II (SDEII)
Toronto, Ontario, CanadaJuly 1, 2022Online 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
Software Engineer Intern
Seattle, Washington, United StatesJanuary 26, 2026It was a 1-hour interview consisting of 30 minutes of behavioral and 30 minutes of technical questioning. The technical part was easy enough. The challenge was to talk about past experience and projects to align with their requirements.
Software Developer
Portland, Oregon, United StatesJanuary 1, 2022The first phase was standard behavioral questions. Just try to align them with Amazon's beliefs. After that, there were three rounds of technical interviews that I found to become more and more challenging.
