Great tech and smart coworkers, but toxic/horrible environment
Great tech and smart coworkers, but toxic/horrible environment
- Developer AWS accounts, where you get to play with amazing tech.
- Very motivated and intelligent coworkers, and you learn a lot in a short amount of time.
- High expectations here develop your engineering and leadership skills quickly.
- Stack ranking: Amazon orgs have a quota on performance reviews being Least Effective, and you're one bad quarter away from losing your job.
- There is a very toxic and stressful work environment. It's known as the meatgrinder for a reason.
- Pull requests, revisions, comments, change management requests, and design documents are all tracked meticulously, and your performance is held against them. Having an ops-heavy quarter can make you appear underperforming.
- There are really poor benefits and bare minimum compensation compared to other top tech companies, as stock refreshers can be rare, there is no annual bonus, and promotions are political.
- AWS teams have an insane ops load, and ops improvements are rarely marked down positively in performance reviews.
- Reverse the RTO decision, though you likely did that for attrition without severance reasons.
- Remove the stack ranking policies, as it doesn't seem sensible.
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Software Engineer
Screening questions and "A day as a Software Engineer" process. Two-part LC questions that were moderate in difficulty. The process was average, but I never heard back from the recruiter or manager.
Software Engineer
The interview included an online OA, a behavioral interview, and typical STAR questions at the beginning. I did not receive an offer because the position was filled by someone with more experience.
Software Engineer
I got the first two OA. After completing those, a month later I had my final round. For the first round, the interviewer never showed up, so I scheduled another final round. That round had two 60-minute interviews.
Software Engineer
United StatesMarch 1, 2022Screening questions and "A day as a Software Engineer" process. Two-part LC questions that were moderate in difficulty. The process was average, but I never heard back from the recruiter or manager.
Software Engineer
United StatesDecember 20, 2024The interview included an online OA, a behavioral interview, and typical STAR questions at the beginning. I did not receive an offer because the position was filled by someone with more experience.
Software Engineer
New York, New York, United StatesOctober 1, 2022I got the first two OA. After completing those, a month later I had my final round. For the first round, the interviewer never showed up, so I scheduled another final round. That round had two 60-minute interviews.
