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.
The interview experience was overall tough. There were lots of DSA questions and questions related to resumes. Be prepared to answer questions based on Amazon Leadership Principles. Try to answer behavioral questions in STAR format.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. 3 Interview rounds that were an hour each. Completely bombed one of the interviews and had the interviewer belitlle me pretending like I was dumb. Other wasn't bad, but don't schedule a 9am lol.
It took four weeks for a decision to be made to even speak with me. I completed a phone interview, which I frankly didn't think went all that well. Within a few days, I was invited in to interview in person onsite. I initially hesitated because they
The interview experience was overall tough. There were lots of DSA questions and questions related to resumes. Be prepared to answer questions based on Amazon Leadership Principles. Try to answer behavioral questions in STAR format.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. 3 Interview rounds that were an hour each. Completely bombed one of the interviews and had the interviewer belitlle me pretending like I was dumb. Other wasn't bad, but don't schedule a 9am lol.
It took four weeks for a decision to be made to even speak with me. I completed a phone interview, which I frankly didn't think went all that well. Within a few days, I was invited in to interview in person onsite. I initially hesitated because they