It is a very good learning place.
If you are with a good manager, your career path will be very good.
Very bad work-life balance.
If your relationship with your manager is not good, your hard work is all wasted. They will screw you over big time, and no one can stop it.
Any kind of feedback, even annual peer reviews, might backfire, especially if your manager is not on your side.
Recently, too many people have been hired. If you are looking to work with real Amazon people, there aren't many. There's an 80% chance your neighbor has also been at Amazon for less than a year.
1-1 meetings and reviews are supposed to be personal and not to be shared with everyone publicly. There is a leadership principle called being vocally self-critical, and management has to follow that at least some times.
I had five interviews on my virtual site "D-day," when the schedule was originally set to have only four. I'm not sure what happened. I ended up interviewing for five hours straight with no time to eat. Glad I still passed the bar, but that was not
First, there was a phone interview, which lasted one hour with a Senior Software Developer. I scheduled my final round of interviews a month later, dividing the four one-hour interviews into two consecutive dates.
Different interview stages: • First, a Hackerrank-style coding test • In addition to an interactive email simulation test and decision-making based on Amazon employee guidelines
I had five interviews on my virtual site "D-day," when the schedule was originally set to have only four. I'm not sure what happened. I ended up interviewing for five hours straight with no time to eat. Glad I still passed the bar, but that was not
First, there was a phone interview, which lasted one hour with a Senior Software Developer. I scheduled my final round of interviews a month later, dividing the four one-hour interviews into two consecutive dates.
Different interview stages: • First, a Hackerrank-style coding test • In addition to an interactive email simulation test and decision-making based on Amazon employee guidelines