You can learn how to survive in a tough environment
You can learn how to survive in a tough environment
At Amazon, you need to be proactive and good at communication, which is a weak point of most engineers in general. There are many meetings and chances of interacting with many people, in addition to writing a program.
Like many big and old companies, there are so many legacy code that is big and hard to improve. Therefore, development velocity is very low unless you are working on an isolated task. In this environment where development efficiency is low, we need to deliver products quickly, which has led to frequent overtime work.
Keep hiring more people to cope with low development velocity.
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The process started with a recruiter reaching out, followed by an online assessment. After passing the test, I was invited to a four-round onsite loop spread across one week. I had around 20 days of preparation time before the loop. Each round foc
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The online assessment worked pretty flawlessly. However, not having someone to ask clarifying questions to is tough, especially when a problem is phrased intentionally in a very complex way. Additionally, there were some extra questions at the end ab
Software Engineer II
It was just an online round that I got. I had two questions that were of a hard level from LeetCode, and not enough time. The next round had a set of online system design questions. The system design questions were of a basic level and they tested t
Software Engineer II
Seattle, Washington, United StatesSeptember 16, 2025The process started with a recruiter reaching out, followed by an online assessment. After passing the test, I was invited to a four-round onsite loop spread across one week. I had around 20 days of preparation time before the loop. Each round foc
Software Engineer II
Seattle, Washington, United StatesMay 1, 2025The online assessment worked pretty flawlessly. However, not having someone to ask clarifying questions to is tough, especially when a problem is phrased intentionally in a very complex way. Additionally, there were some extra questions at the end ab
Software Engineer II
Seattle, Washington, United StatesApril 11, 2025It was just an online round that I got. I had two questions that were of a hard level from LeetCode, and not enough time. The next round had a set of online system design questions. The system design questions were of a basic level and they tested t
