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Great place to improve
- You can learn a lot.
- You can work on huge projects with lots of users and lots of data (terabytes, petabytes).
- You can use AWS almost limitlessly. Other companies usually worry about costs. Here, I'm working on a team with an annual AWS cost around ~$1M. You can experiment a lot with that kind of budget.
- No overtime, no problem taking days off and PTO.
- Large turnover in the teams. After 1.5 years, I am the only one left from the team that I joined, which had 7 developers.
- The leadership principle called "Frugality" affects employees as well. Don't expect huge raises and bonuses unless you are willing to work 150%.
- Internal frameworks, tools: We use lots of internally developed tools and frameworks. You will have to learn a lot, and you won't be able to use that at other companies.
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Received a message from an Amazon recruiter. First round: Online coding assessment (homework) - medium question. Second round: The recruiter provided some feedback regarding the previous round and gave some explanation for the final round. On-site
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Exactly as described in the document the recruiter gives you: * 4 1-hour interviews: * 3 coding * 1 system design The document definitely gives way more information than you strictly need, but it's a good document for preparing for ot
Software Development Engineer II
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Software Development Engineer II
Toronto, Ontario, CanadaJanuary 1, 2022Received a message from an Amazon recruiter. First round: Online coding assessment (homework) - medium question. Second round: The recruiter provided some feedback regarding the previous round and gave some explanation for the final round. On-site
Software Development Engineer II
Jersey City, New Jersey, United StatesJune 1, 2020Exactly as described in the document the recruiter gives you: * 4 1-hour interviews: * 3 coding * 1 system design The document definitely gives way more information than you strictly need, but it's a good document for preparing for ot
Software Development Engineer II
Seattle, Washington, United StatesMay 9, 2026I applied through a staffing agency. There were a total of 2 rounds: * The first round was with an SDE II on Data Structures/Algo - Leet code questions mainly. * The second round was with an SDM Behavioral/System Design - Leadership principles and p
