Great compensation, especially when factoring in a 4-year vest of real stock shares (RSU) and benefits.
Lots of opportunities for learning.
Many engineering teams are fairly small (6-10) and tend to be independently functioning, so it doesn't feel like a giant, sluggish company.
The self-service nature encourages everyone to figure out everything for themselves. This works well for some people, but not for everyone.
There's a tendency towards "drinking from the firehose" from the time you start until you've had enough. Making sure you don't take on more than you can realistically handle is your problem.
Before placing a new-to-Amazon engineer on a team "by themselves," make sure they're comfortable with learning all the infrastructure, tooling, and so on, essentially on their own. Everyone's different, but I suspect many incoming "fresh blood" devs would fare better starting out on an established team with an existing and stable product, service, or responsibility, while figuring out how engineering at Amazon works. At the same time, newly spun-up teams would benefit from being populated with experienced Amazonians.
A recruiter from Amazon reached out. I passed the online assessment and then scheduled the final loop after two weeks. I was asked LeetCode medium problems and many behavioral questions. Each interview segment lasted approximately 30 minutes.
Coding assessment with two coding questions and a workstyle survey. Four rounds in a virtual onsite a month later: * One round with the hiring manager. * The other three with members of the team.
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
A recruiter from Amazon reached out. I passed the online assessment and then scheduled the final loop after two weeks. I was asked LeetCode medium problems and many behavioral questions. Each interview segment lasted approximately 30 minutes.
Coding assessment with two coding questions and a workstyle survey. Four rounds in a virtual onsite a month later: * One round with the hiring manager. * The other three with members of the team.
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