Growth, But Work-life Balance Suffers
Growth, But Work-life Balance Suffers
You will grow and learn a lot working here at Amazon. AWS skills transfer over anywhere.
Work-life balance can be lacking. Heavy on-call loads will absolutely ruin that. Horizontal mobility helps in getting away from that.
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Software Development Engineer (SDE)
One Bar Raiser, one low-level design round, and one with two LeetCode problems. Leadership principles were assessed in all of the above rounds. The Bar Raiser round was stressful; they checked how you can manage in stressful situations.
Software Development Engineer (SDE)
The Amazon SDE-1 interview includes: * An online assessment * 1–2 technical rounds * 3–4 final interviews These interviews focus on coding (DSA), basic system design, and behavioral questions based on Amazon’s 16 Leadership Principles, using
Software Development Engineer (SDE)
Overly convoluted and pretentious. Takes 4+ hours just to get to the next step in the process. Overall, this makes me dislike the company if this is how they treat people before they're even employees.
Software Development Engineer (SDE)
Seattle, Washington, United StatesJune 1, 2025One Bar Raiser, one low-level design round, and one with two LeetCode problems. Leadership principles were assessed in all of the above rounds. The Bar Raiser round was stressful; they checked how you can manage in stressful situations.
Software Development Engineer (SDE)
California, Maryland, United StatesJuly 1, 2025The Amazon SDE-1 interview includes: * An online assessment * 1–2 technical rounds * 3–4 final interviews These interviews focus on coding (DSA), basic system design, and behavioral questions based on Amazon’s 16 Leadership Principles, using
Software Development Engineer (SDE)
Seattle, Washington, United StatesJanuary 11, 2023Overly convoluted and pretentious. Takes 4+ hours just to get to the next step in the process. Overall, this makes me dislike the company if this is how they treat people before they're even employees.
