The pace is very high; you learn a lot very quickly on interesting projects (in my personal opinion).
At Amazon, you are not a "programmer," but rather the "owner" of your code. This means you plan, estimate, manage, program, deploy, and maintain your code.
It is difficult to reconcile personal life; there are no "quiet times". Managing projects involves a lot of bureaucracy. Most of the teams are in Seattle, which makes it difficult to connect during business hours.
Three rounds with two rounds being out-of-domain (OOD) and one round with an easy LeetCode question. They asked a lot of behavioral questions. I was not prepared for so many behavioral questions. I guess that was why I failed.
Received OA. Questions were medium-hard. Next, a "day in the life" technical test was administered, followed by a personality test. Finally, there were three interviews: * One focused solely on LP questions. * Two were coding interviews (easy and
- First round with Senior SDE - Second round with Bar Raiser - Third round with another SDE It was a great experience for me in the first two rounds. The last round was delayed by two hours, and the interviewer was not nice to the candidate at all.
Three rounds with two rounds being out-of-domain (OOD) and one round with an easy LeetCode question. They asked a lot of behavioral questions. I was not prepared for so many behavioral questions. I guess that was why I failed.
Received OA. Questions were medium-hard. Next, a "day in the life" technical test was administered, followed by a personality test. Finally, there were three interviews: * One focused solely on LP questions. * Two were coding interviews (easy and
- First round with Senior SDE - Second round with Bar Raiser - Third round with another SDE It was a great experience for me in the first two rounds. The last round was delayed by two hours, and the interviewer was not nice to the candidate at all.