Career growth at the expense of your mental and physical health
Career growth at the expense of your mental and physical health
- You will definitely grow as an engineer and leader.
- High-impact projects
- No WLB.
- You can have a great team, but the toxic Amazon-wide culture eventually breaks through.
- Five-day RTO and micro-management.
- Crappy benefits.
- Everything is urgent, but it is impossible to meet deadlines due to bureaucracy.
- Proprietary technologies that are not beneficial to long-term growth.
- Regular layoffs.
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Very quick and professional, respectful of my time and effort in showing up. I would highly recommend. Everyone in the interview was very nice to me. I went through approximately 14 interviews over the course of 17 months.
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I was contacted by a recruiter from AWS Dublin on LinkedIn for an SDE2 (L4) position in the DynamoDB team in January 2022. I passed the HackerRank assessment and was invited for a phone interview. I was told I didn't do well in the phone interview,
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The in-person interview had a few technical interviews: * A couple of coding interviews * One that was more design-oriented They paid for a hotel, which was nice.
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United StatesJanuary 20, 2023Very quick and professional, respectful of my time and effort in showing up. I would highly recommend. Everyone in the interview was very nice to me. I went through approximately 14 interviews over the course of 17 months.
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EgyptFebruary 1, 2022I was contacted by a recruiter from AWS Dublin on LinkedIn for an SDE2 (L4) position in the DynamoDB team in January 2022. I passed the HackerRank assessment and was invited for a phone interview. I was told I didn't do well in the phone interview,
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United StatesMarch 30, 2025The in-person interview had a few technical interviews: * A couple of coding interviews * One that was more design-oriented They paid for a hotel, which was nice.
