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- Good pay at higher levels (SDE 3+).
- Excellent range of opportunities - work from UI to the largest web services infrastructure in the world, to machine learning, to consumer products (Kindle). If you get bored of one team, moving to another is straightforward.
- High achievers are rewarded well.
- Super focused and competent senior management.
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The frugality (cheapness) gets old after a while.
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Growing as an individual contributor after the SDE 2 level is made ridiculously tough and is completely team-dependent. An SDE 2-3 promotion in a technically strong team might take years (or never happen), with the same promotion taking a few months in some other teams.
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Uneven quality across groups and teams – there needs to be a consistent hiring bar.
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Employees are treated largely as cogs. The pager hell is real and can be bad depending on the team.
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Software Engineer III
Classic big tech process: * Hunting * Initial chat with recruiter * Technical coding interview * 5 hours of technical interviews with 4 different people, involving programming, design, and behavior. All of them with feedback via email or directly f
Software Engineer III
It is very long and difficult. It's a mixture of coding problems as well as a lot of personal questions to determine your work style and soft skills. You also have to dedicate a full workday to it.
Software Engineer
It was good, but they didn't respond to me for a long time after 14 days. I asked them why, but they didn't respond back.
Software Engineer III
BrazilOctober 8, 2022Classic big tech process: * Hunting * Initial chat with recruiter * Technical coding interview * 5 hours of technical interviews with 4 different people, involving programming, design, and behavior. All of them with feedback via email or directly f
Software Engineer III
Toronto, Ontario, CanadaFebruary 1, 2021It is very long and difficult. It's a mixture of coding problems as well as a lot of personal questions to determine your work style and soft skills. You also have to dedicate a full workday to it.
Software Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United StatesNovember 20, 2025It was good, but they didn't respond to me for a long time after 14 days. I asked them why, but they didn't respond back.
