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From engineer to senior managers, even PM, none of them care much about UI/UX. Quoting from management, "I don't care about how the product will look like, just make it work first, we can worry about UI later." Speaking of "working backward" that the company often encourages, in the Amazon way, it is to write a 10+ page design document, spend 10 hours reviewing it, and rewrite your document several times because your manager doesn't like the introduction paragraph. Then later, at some point, someone says, "The navigation flow is not clear to me."
The attrition rate is ridiculous. The people who did the welcome lunch for you most probably won't be the same ones doing the farewell lunch. 50% of people leave within the first year, 80% within the second. From my experience, I'd say it's more than that.
Instead of real engineering work, if you prefer to spend most of your time writing emails, doing operational work, and playing corporate games to get the promotion, then Amazon is probably for you. Oh, and good luck sticking with the same manager who can vouch for your promotion. Either you change the team, or they change the manager for you.
Heavily invest more resources on tooling and infrastructure.
Encourage a more engineering-driven culture within the company.
Please don't treat everyone like an easily replaceable cog. There is a reason that the attrition rate is high, and don't pretend that's normal.
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
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
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
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
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
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