Not a Place to Develop a Career, Good for a Short SDE Stint
Not a Place to Develop a Career, Good for a Short SDE Stint
In the first few years working at Amazon, you will learn a ton about how to design and develop large-scale/high-throughput applications and systems.
Currently having Amazon on your resume means something. Get your 3-4 years in, use the Amazon line on your resume to pass other company's resume filters, and grow your career elsewhere.
No work/life balance issues with just delivering enough to not be the lowest performer on the team.
The culture at Amazon forces individuals to worry only about their own contributions and not to support others.
The deferred compensation for top-tier performers means that there is no immediate benefit to working hard. You may deliver something very useful, but your compensation will only increase 2-3 years later.
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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
After passing the Online Assessment, you then move on to the Final Loop Interviews, which consist of, but not necessarily in specific order: * Behavioral Interview * Technical Coding Interview (Leetcode style) * Low Level Design interview (OOP)
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
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
United StatesNovember 18, 2025After passing the Online Assessment, you then move on to the Final Loop Interviews, which consist of, but not necessarily in specific order: * Behavioral Interview * Technical Coding Interview (Leetcode style) * Low Level Design interview (OOP)
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.
