Great for ladder climbers
Great for ladder climbers
Very clear path to promotion. If you want it hard enough, you can achieve it here. But it definitely comes at a cost.
PIP culture, management roulette, god-like complex from people one level above you. Horrible TPM culture, bad team culture. If you're not in first, you're in last, and everyone coordinates to cut you out.
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Software Engineer II
Just solve the classic LeetCode problem. Very easy. The first stage uses an extremely difficult-to-interpret statement, causing panic for the next round, which ends up being quite simple. Interview for finance.
Software Engineer II
Amazon's interview process felt extremely standardized, and unfortunately, in a bad way. I applied for a job requiring specific specialized skills, which I possessed. However, they went out of their way to ask questions a person with those skills wo
Software Engineer II
It went well. The whiteboarding was a good conversation between the two of us while I worked out the question. I assume this is different between branches, but the AWS Gateway division was nice.
Software Engineer II
BrazilMarch 11, 2025Just solve the classic LeetCode problem. Very easy. The first stage uses an extremely difficult-to-interpret statement, causing panic for the next round, which ends up being quite simple. Interview for finance.
Software Engineer II
San Francisco, California, United StatesSeptember 1, 2022Amazon's interview process felt extremely standardized, and unfortunately, in a bad way. I applied for a job requiring specific specialized skills, which I possessed. However, they went out of their way to ask questions a person with those skills wo
Software Engineer II
Chicago, Illinois, United StatesJuly 12, 2023It went well. The whiteboarding was a good conversation between the two of us while I worked out the question. I assume this is different between branches, but the AWS Gateway division was nice.
