Amazon burns through employees
Amazon burns through employees
Great customer service, name recognition, taking risks
Dysfunctional micromanagement, extreme stress, on-call pager duty, lack of respect for developer skill and experience.
Quit treating engineers as "fungible" (yes, that's exactly what they call it) and treat them with respect. Care a little about employee retention. Quit abusing overtime law to extract on-call operations time from experienced and skilled engineers. A little vacation time. Oh, and when a project has more of you (managers) than engineers, it might be a key indication that something is horribly wrong.
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Software Engineer II
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
Software Engineer II
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
