Insights on the first 3 months
Insights on the first 3 months
- The culture encourages diversity and inclusion.
- Unique ways like using documents over PPT, and living with LPs, which I didn't see in previous employers.
- Highly skilled engineers when comparing to other companies.
- There are different methods inside Amazon to encourage innovation.
- Base pay requires regular review.
- Some people are abusing the contradiction in the Leadership principles for their agendas, either intentionally or by misunderstanding when to use what.
- You should take actions for employees in the probation period to develop their physiological safety.
- The hiring approach needs renovation to enable faster hiring.
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I applied through Glassdoor and was contacted by a recruiter. She was excellent. She described the position, and I described my experience. It was a great conversation. We then proceeded to a second interview, not with the actual hiring manager (at
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Had a phone screen with a Sr. Data Scientist, went deep into LP-based "tell me about a time when" questions with abundant follow-ups into the STAR-structured responses. Process started with the hiring manager reaching out on LinkedIn. Recruiter rea
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- There was first a call with the recruiter, who prepared me for how the interviews would be held. These were mostly behavioral questions about past situations from my work experience, relating to the AWS leadership principles and responded to in the
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Chicago, Illinois, United StatesMarch 1, 2020I applied through Glassdoor and was contacted by a recruiter. She was excellent. She described the position, and I described my experience. It was a great conversation. We then proceeded to a second interview, not with the actual hiring manager (at
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New York, New York, United StatesSeptember 20, 2026Had a phone screen with a Sr. Data Scientist, went deep into LP-based "tell me about a time when" questions with abundant follow-ups into the STAR-structured responses. Process started with the hiring manager reaching out on LinkedIn. Recruiter rea
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Berlin, GermanyMarch 1, 2022- There was first a call with the recruiter, who prepared me for how the interviews would be held. These were mostly behavioral questions about past situations from my work experience, relating to the AWS leadership principles and responded to in the
