Brilliant Team, Abusive Management
Brilliant Team, Abusive Management
Jeff Bezos and his "S-Team" are brilliant and continue to make great decisions for long-term growth.
You work with smart people, you work on exciting projects, and you are pushed to your limits, which can be rewarding when you accomplish great things. The diversity of the potential work and innovation can be very alluring. I've often called Amazon my "Sexy Mistress... she's emotionally abusive, but she's so sexy that I go back for more punishment."
The management process is abusive, and I'm currently a manager. I've seen too much "behind the wall" and hate how individual performers can be treated.
You are forced to ride people and stack rank employees. I've been forced to give good employees bad overall ratings because of politics and stack ranking.
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It was a very hard interview, and the interviewer was very bad. I discussed the approach and asked for his input. He diverted me to a wrong approach, and it wasn't possible to arrive at the correct solution from that path. This was for Amazon Robotic
Software Engineer
First, I had a recruiter call. Then, I had an online assessment. Next, a phone screen round. For the final round/one-day event: * Hiring Manager Interview * Two LeetCode-style interviews * One behavioral-style interview
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I had a phone screen and then a final virtual interview process, which consisted of three rounds on the same day. All the interviews had LPs + coding (except for one, which had LLD).
Software Engineer
Boston, Massachusetts, United StatesOctober 2, 2025It was a very hard interview, and the interviewer was very bad. I discussed the approach and asked for his input. He diverted me to a wrong approach, and it wasn't possible to arrive at the correct solution from that path. This was for Amazon Robotic
Software Engineer
Boston, Massachusetts, United StatesSeptember 17, 2025First, I had a recruiter call. Then, I had an online assessment. Next, a phone screen round. For the final round/one-day event: * Hiring Manager Interview * Two LeetCode-style interviews * One behavioral-style interview
Software Engineer
Boston, Massachusetts, United StatesJuly 13, 2025I had a phone screen and then a final virtual interview process, which consisted of three rounds on the same day. All the interviews had LPs + coding (except for one, which had LLD).
