Start at Amazon, leave after 1-2 years
Start at Amazon, leave after 1-2 years
- Gain experience extremely fast.
- Extremely hype name at the moment, easy to get employed after working at Amazon.
- Get to live in downtown Seattle with a comfortable salary.
- Quality of coworkers is almost always great.
- Almost no company perks
- Overly competitive culture
- Leadership principles are subjective rather than objective
Take advice from companies like Google and Microsoft on how to sustain engineers, rather than having a bad turnover rate. A lot has to do with company culture, but even increasing the benefits could make people stay longer.
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I took a coding competency test, which was basically just LeetCode questions. The material was pretty straightforward. One question was unfamiliar, unlike anything I'd seen on LeetCode, but the advice is to just do your best. You don't always have t
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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
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Seattle, Washington, United StatesApril 24, 2026OA -> phone (tech) -> 3x tech VO -> offer Some behavioral questions asked in the tech, basic LP related questions. OA was personality/behavioral related, and VO was mainly leetcode, nothing from tagged.
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Seattle, Washington, United StatesSeptember 1, 2022I took a coding competency test, which was basically just LeetCode questions. The material was pretty straightforward. One question was unfamiliar, unlike anything I'd seen on LeetCode, but the advice is to just do your best. You don't always have t
