Benefits: Sometimes you work on incredibly interesting problems.
Pay - completely unequal across levels. Constantly reevaluating everyone against each other. Even if your team is great, someone has to be marked as underperforming.
Stop the rating system
There's a recruiter call before they send you the online assessment. The online assessment is 90 minutes to complete 2 questions you would typically find on LeetCode or HackerRank. Afterwards, I was put in an interview loop. There were 2 rounds of
1. Intro call with a recruiter - This interview was pretty straightforward. It's the getting-to-know-you and AWS stage. 2. Online Assessment - Two data structure/algorithm problems - Behavioral questions - Design questions 3. Onsite (
1.5-hour coding exam. Long virtual on-site. A lot of the onus is on the interviewee. Amazon is a large company with established procedures, so you can expect that the company will help you progress in your career.
There's a recruiter call before they send you the online assessment. The online assessment is 90 minutes to complete 2 questions you would typically find on LeetCode or HackerRank. Afterwards, I was put in an interview loop. There were 2 rounds of
1. Intro call with a recruiter - This interview was pretty straightforward. It's the getting-to-know-you and AWS stage. 2. Online Assessment - Two data structure/algorithm problems - Behavioral questions - Design questions 3. Onsite (
1.5-hour coding exam. Long virtual on-site. A lot of the onus is on the interviewee. Amazon is a large company with established procedures, so you can expect that the company will help you progress in your career.