Good Pay, Bad Politics
Good Pay, Bad Politics
Compensation is competitive and better than market.
Salary is the only best part.
There are a lot of differences across verticals.
Each vertical has tweaked some set of policies.
Amazon boasts of solid Leadership principles, but the same are abused to find reasons for pinning people down.
Depending on the team, politics vary a lot.
A lot of long-timers are sitting in engineering positions who do not know about agile ways of development or engineering.
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SDE-intern
Round 1: OA online assessment Round 2: 2 coding problems - Linked List - Prefix sum After this, I was not selected, but the interviewer was chill and responded to all my questions.
Software Development Engineer (SDE)
One OA followed by two interviews. The first interview was based on DSA. Topics included DP, trees, and graphs. These were medium-level problems. The second interview consisted of one DSA question, situational questions, and personal projects.
Software Development Engineer (SDE)
OA Evaluation The platform was HackerRank, and the question was "Designing Compiler" (LeetCode Medium). I solved the first question. For the second question, I had the intuition but was unable to solve it due to limited time.
SDE-intern
Bangalore Rural, Karnataka, IndiaSeptember 3, 2025Round 1: OA online assessment Round 2: 2 coding problems - Linked List - Prefix sum After this, I was not selected, but the interviewer was chill and responded to all my questions.
Software Development Engineer (SDE)
Bangalore Rural, Karnataka, IndiaAugust 25, 2025One OA followed by two interviews. The first interview was based on DSA. Topics included DP, trees, and graphs. These were medium-level problems. The second interview consisted of one DSA question, situational questions, and personal projects.
Software Development Engineer (SDE)
Bangalore Rural, Karnataka, IndiaJuly 23, 2025OA Evaluation The platform was HackerRank, and the question was "Designing Compiler" (LeetCode Medium). I solved the first question. For the second question, I had the intuition but was unable to solve it due to limited time.
