Great Engineers, Customer First
Great Engineers, Customer First
Amazon requires a lot in terms of professionalism, and truly does have the customer's satisfaction at heart. You'll be working with some of the best engineers in the industry.
I think the customer's needs come before the employees. While this is as it should be, a larger portion of the profits thus generated should come back to the employees by way of extra shares.
Amazon leadership principles do not include something that rewards employees for unselfishly thinking of other employees. This causes the company culture to be a bit too weighted in terms of personal ambition and sometimes non-constructive competition between employees.
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Software Development Engineer (SDE)
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. One-on-one with senior engineer. Leetcode medium, two linked lists. Needed to see if they were the same. Not sure what the other rounds were, got rejected after first round.
Graduate Software Development Engineer
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I had a first phone screen, which was an hour long, had 15 minutes of HR questions based on Leadership Principles, then 45 minutes of real-time coding problems. You need to know a bit about DSA to be able
Software Development Engineer (SDE)
An online assessment (approx. 1 hour) followed by a phone screen (1 hour) and a loop interview consisting of three interviews, each about 1 hour. All interviews were online and were a mix of technical and leadership principles.
Software Development Engineer (SDE)
Cape Town, Western Cape, South AfricaFebruary 5, 2026I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. One-on-one with senior engineer. Leetcode medium, two linked lists. Needed to see if they were the same. Not sure what the other rounds were, got rejected after first round.
Graduate Software Development Engineer
Cape Town, Western Cape, South AfricaNovember 1, 2025I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I had a first phone screen, which was an hour long, had 15 minutes of HR questions based on Leadership Principles, then 45 minutes of real-time coding problems. You need to know a bit about DSA to be able
Software Development Engineer (SDE)
Cape Town, Western Cape, South AfricaNovember 10, 2025An online assessment (approx. 1 hour) followed by a phone screen (1 hour) and a loop interview consisting of three interviews, each about 1 hour. All interviews were online and were a mix of technical and leadership principles.
