Great place to start your career, not so good for senior engineers
Great place to start your career, not so good for senior engineers
Above average salary package. Offer fully remote work opportunity. Able to work with talented and collaborative engineers, lots of learning opportunities. Managers provide great support and flexibility to team members.
Average benefits, below average 401k matching, and the worst PTO in the tech industry, with only 10 days for first-year employees.
Many software tools are internally built but fail to keep up with industry standards.
Low work/life balance.
Freedom of choice on tech stack is limited to Amazon products and services; very few open-source alternatives are allowed.
As a senior engineer, you are better off taking other tech firms' offers. If you do choose to work for Amazon, I would suggest you stay a couple of years to learn the tech stack and systems well, so you aren't locked into its ecosystem and lose touch with industry trends.
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Software Development Engineer (SDE) II
Recruiter reach out -> OA. Solved one question completely and passed half of the other question's tests. Later, I was rejected due to lack of experience on my resume. I actively asked if there were any SDE I positions, but they were unable to provid
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Introduction, some info about the project. A detailed explanation for why a particular tech stack was chosen. Two DSA questions were asked, the approach was discussed, and time complexity analysis was done.
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I first had to complete an online assessment, which consisted of two Medium-level DSA questions and a series of multiple-choice questions about system design. The OA questions are more challenging than those encountered during the actual interview lo
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Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaNovember 6, 2025Recruiter reach out -> OA. Solved one question completely and passed half of the other question's tests. Later, I was rejected due to lack of experience on my resume. I actively asked if there were any SDE I positions, but they were unable to provid
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Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaNovember 6, 2025Introduction, some info about the project. A detailed explanation for why a particular tech stack was chosen. Two DSA questions were asked, the approach was discussed, and time complexity analysis was done.
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Austin, Texas, United StatesOctober 12, 2025I first had to complete an online assessment, which consisted of two Medium-level DSA questions and a series of multiple-choice questions about system design. The OA questions are more challenging than those encountered during the actual interview lo
