Good learning experience, but demanding
Good learning experience, but demanding
Despite the stories, work-life balance is reasonable. You learn to be a good engineer. Even as an SDEI, I gained good system design experience by owning a major feature.
There are interesting and challenging problems. It's easy to switch teams, and there are lots of opportunities.
Projects can be cancelled or postponed after a lot of effort has been put into them. Sometimes there are dry spells, and sometimes they are backed up with tons to do.
Projects can be demanding. I had great performance reviews for 4 years, but with a new team where I wasn't meeting the manager's expectations, I was soon put on a dev plan and ended up leaving shortly after.
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Amazon Interview Experiences
Software Development Engineer
1. Online Assessment Interview Invite to schedule. 2. Hiring Manager Round 2/3 LPs and 2 LeetCode medium problems. 3. Interview with SDE II Half an hour with LPs, and the other half doing a coding question to write maintainable code. 4. Bar Rai
Software Development Engineer
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.
Software Development Engineer
Leetcode-style questions. You are given an image represented by an m x n grid of integers, `image`, where `image[i][j]` represents the pixel value of the image. You are also given three integers: `sr`, `sc`, and `color`. Your task is to perform a
Software Development Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United StatesNovember 19, 20251. Online Assessment Interview Invite to schedule. 2. Hiring Manager Round 2/3 LPs and 2 LeetCode medium problems. 3. Interview with SDE II Half an hour with LPs, and the other half doing a coding question to write maintainable code. 4. Bar Rai
Software Development Engineer
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 StatesSeptember 26, 2025Leetcode-style questions. You are given an image represented by an m x n grid of integers, `image`, where `image[i][j]` represents the pixel value of the image. You are also given three integers: `sr`, `sc`, and `color`. Your task is to perform a
