Great Pay, Awful Culture
Great Pay, Awful Culture
Compensation is great. Learning on and designing ginormous micro-service based architectures. It's a great chance to learn how to design huge, scalable, fault-tolerant systems.
The culture kind of sucks. Everyone's got cash, just not enough fun to go around.
Crushing bureaucracy, major hierarchy, ask for permission to pick your own nose, etc., etc.
Permissionless innovation.
Allow your creative people to be creative, then prune.
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It went well, with half an hour for leadership principles and the other half an hour for coding and system design. It’s a great experience overall. System design, they expect more clarity.
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The interview was not hard if you were prepared. You can expect a lot of standard questions, and it was an overall easy interview. There is a particular set of questions which can be referred to, and one can expect to see the same questions from tha
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I applied on the Amazon careers website without referrals. The interview process consists of one OA round and one final virtual round with three back-to-back interviews. I heard back from them after two business days. I passed the interviews but w
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Seattle, Washington, United StatesNovember 8, 2025It went well, with half an hour for leadership principles and the other half an hour for coding and system design. It’s a great experience overall. System design, they expect more clarity.
Software Development Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United StatesNovember 1, 2019The interview was not hard if you were prepared. You can expect a lot of standard questions, and it was an overall easy interview. There is a particular set of questions which can be referred to, and one can expect to see the same questions from tha
Software Development Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United StatesAugust 1, 2025I applied on the Amazon careers website without referrals. The interview process consists of one OA round and one final virtual round with three back-to-back interviews. I heard back from them after two business days. I passed the interviews but w
