Interesting projects. Good pay. Friendly teammates. Sign-on bonus offsets the slow RSU vest.
Amazon Leadership Principles do not apply to the senior leadership team, who make decisions that benefit themselves over survey results from a large portion of the engineering workforce. When making decisions that negatively impacted the said workforce, senior leadership told employees they needed to "disagree and commit" with what had been decided and refused to share any data to back up their decision-making.
The company did a complete 180 on remote work after hiring many workers as fully remote during COVID, with no reasonable way to commute to an office, then more or less demanded they consider moving across the country or quit. Enforcement varies across organizations, but do not expect remote opportunities any longer.
401k match is only 50% of the first 4% (i.e., 2%).
US holidays are minimal, but vacation granted after 1 full year of service helps with this.
Multiple Online Assessments (OAs). The first OA was a coding interview. Study hash tables! The second OA was behavioral, conducted through their own simulation. Read their leadership principles! The annoying thing is that if rejected, they will no
The interview process was purely based on data structures and algorithms. In DSA and Algo, anything can be asked, from mid-level to advanced topics. However, usually, all the questions are available on GeeksforGeeks. No extra headache.
Practical, business-oriented interviews without tricks. Tests algorithms, data structures, system design, and leadership principles. I had a phone screen and then a complete loop with multiple engineers.
Multiple Online Assessments (OAs). The first OA was a coding interview. Study hash tables! The second OA was behavioral, conducted through their own simulation. Read their leadership principles! The annoying thing is that if rejected, they will no
The interview process was purely based on data structures and algorithms. In DSA and Algo, anything can be asked, from mid-level to advanced topics. However, usually, all the questions are available on GeeksforGeeks. No extra headache.
Practical, business-oriented interviews without tricks. Tests algorithms, data structures, system design, and leadership principles. I had a phone screen and then a complete loop with multiple engineers.