Great pay, terrible work life balance
Great pay, terrible work life balance
- High salary.
- Gaining experience with AWS resources.
- Ability to deploy and scale cloud infrastructure without too much worry about costs.
- Leveraging unlimited AI tokens.
- Lots of amazing tooling for AI incorporated into many processes, eliminating pain points.
- Ability to wear many hats and participate in lots of product discussions.
- Lots of documentation.
- Great healthcare benefits.
- Cross-team collaboration.
- Free coffee every day.
- Free IT vending machine for extra basic supplies.
- There are processes to prevent breaking glass of data and/or followup procedures when things go awry.
- Because of Amazon's hiring process, you tend to work with reliable, intelligent people.
- Free bananas.
- Lots of convenient, centralized abstractions to eliminate spin-up time (code, pipelines, service-to-service communication, etc.).
- Nearly unlimited resources to base off of to speed up deployment.
- Low total of paid holidays.
- A 4-year vesting strategy is mainly the incentive to stay.
- There is a terrible work/life balance to meet unrealistic deliverable deadlines for a person or team. This often results in more hours to meet deliverables, thus setting the standard for deliverables going forward.
- You have to heavily document and write a majority of your own successes to prove why you deserve to be promoted.
- There is a return to the office 5 days a week.
- With AI, the expectation to deliver has increased far beyond the expectations that people are meant to handle.
- Everything is prefaced with a design document or a one-pager.
- Decisions made by higher-ups often don't get propagated down until the day of the announcement, such as RTO and layoffs.
- Great talent was laid off to support business decisions, despite being one of the highest net profit grossing companies.
- There is no Amazon Prime, discounts at Whole Foods, or free food at the office.
- There is no semblance of employee culture, as everyone is focused on deliverables and neglecting the social aspect due to the work culture.
- There are not enough desks to support RTO, and some conference rooms were turned into desks and bullpens.
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I just finished OA. It wasn't too hard, but the time limit was short. Questions were mostly medium to hard level. You need to prepare for commonly used data structures, leaning more towards complex ones.
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The Amazon interview starts with an online assessment/elimination round (coding + work simulation). If you pass, you move to a technical/behavioral screening. Next is the loop round with four back-to-back interviews, covering coding, design, and Le
Software Engineer
It was okay, not the worst. Turnover is bad, though, as many people leave the job. The interview process is very standard. There weren't any surprises there or in the future that I expect.
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United StatesFebruary 25, 2025I just finished OA. It wasn't too hard, but the time limit was short. Questions were mostly medium to hard level. You need to prepare for commonly used data structures, leaning more towards complex ones.
Software Engineer
United StatesJuly 1, 2025The Amazon interview starts with an online assessment/elimination round (coding + work simulation). If you pass, you move to a technical/behavioral screening. Next is the loop round with four back-to-back interviews, covering coding, design, and Le
Software Engineer
United StatesJanuary 3, 2024It was okay, not the worst. Turnover is bad, though, as many people leave the job. The interview process is very standard. There weren't any surprises there or in the future that I expect.
