As a software engineer at Amazon,
As a software engineer at Amazon,
Understand and work with distributed software systems.
Scale is an integral part of the organization, be it the software systems or the influence that you have on your peers.
On-call
Some of the teams may have a grueling on-call schedule that can take a toll on your life if the system is not handled well.
Too many people move between teams, and at times it is hard to find tenured expertise.
Focus on employee work-life balance. Find a mechanism for rewarding employee retention in the team. Focus on building expertise, not just software systems that scale.
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It went well. The company came for an internship at my college (IIT), and I received a PPO. I was also prepared for placements, but I ultimately got the PPO. I practiced DSA extensively over the last 10 months. They asked some technical questions,
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One coding round with three questions. Two are easy. The third one is complicated and related to binary trees. Another question is related to disk space allocation. They are a bit complicated but easy to solve.
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My first round was on Data Structures & Algorithms. They asked me two LeetCode medium-difficulty problems, and I was only able to solve one. The expectation was to write production-ready code for both problems. Due to a time crunch, I could only writ
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Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaFebruary 15, 2024It went well. The company came for an internship at my college (IIT), and I received a PPO. I was also prepared for placements, but I ultimately got the PPO. I practiced DSA extensively over the last 10 months. They asked some technical questions,
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Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaMay 4, 2025One coding round with three questions. Two are easy. The third one is complicated and related to binary trees. Another question is related to disk space allocation. They are a bit complicated but easy to solve.
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Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaJune 1, 2024My first round was on Data Structures & Algorithms. They asked me two LeetCode medium-difficulty problems, and I was only able to solve one. The expectation was to write production-ready code for both problems. Due to a time crunch, I could only writ
