You learn a lot of skills and work on impactful projects. Due to the high stress and fast-paced environment, engineers do not stay long and hop to another FAANG company. Having Amazon on your resume will open more opportunities. However, I do see engineers stay for years. These engineers are usually on HB1 visas or are not motivated to interview prep.
Work and life is not balanced.
You set your own deadlines; however, there is some pressure to move fast. You do not want to slow down other teams during the implementation phase.
There are late or early meetings to discuss with teams in China or India.
Technical Screening - Call with a recruiter Online Assessment - 1.5 hours for 2 medium LeetCode questions - Personality assessment - System design multiple choice style assessment Final Round - 4, 1-hour interviews, with a 1-hour break - Each inter
Took about a month. 1 online assessment with 2 medium LeetCode questions (3 coding, 1 system design). They also expect OOPS and LLD knowledge. 2 behavioral questions in every interview (8 in total).
A recruiter contacted me for the SDE2 role. Three days after the HR round, I was given a coding link. I solved that, and then they asked me to schedule four rounds. We could split the four rounds into sets of two for two consecutive days, but I gave
Technical Screening - Call with a recruiter Online Assessment - 1.5 hours for 2 medium LeetCode questions - Personality assessment - System design multiple choice style assessment Final Round - 4, 1-hour interviews, with a 1-hour break - Each inter
Took about a month. 1 online assessment with 2 medium LeetCode questions (3 coding, 1 system design). They also expect OOPS and LLD knowledge. 2 behavioral questions in every interview (8 in total).
A recruiter contacted me for the SDE2 role. Three days after the HR round, I was given a coding link. I solved that, and then they asked me to schedule four rounds. We could split the four rounds into sets of two for two consecutive days, but I gave