Decent pay, but leaves you feeling like a husk of a human being
Decent pay, but leaves you feeling like a husk of a human being
Decent pay and learning opportunities.
Top-down management hierarchy perpetuates a model of fear-driven results, and a focus on frugality creates an environment that is antithetical to creative work and promotes several toxic behaviors that are endemic to the company.
AWS is structured in a way that is optimized for delivering web services, but this doesn't translate to other product initiatives that don't fall under that category, leading to subpar products where the end user is not an engineer. Similarly, Amazon as an entity is hyperfocused on margin-based revenue due to its start as a retailer, and this leads to poor decision-making for other markets that are not margin-based.
Work-life balance was abysmal compared to other jobs, and other FAANG companies pay better.
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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.
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Initial phone call with a recruiter, followed by a 90-minute coding assignment. This consisted of standard LeetCode-style algorithm and data structures problems, loosely related to the specific role and easy to prepare for by using normal resources.
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Only one round for the intern position. The first part of the interview was technical questions. I got one "out of the box" question and one LeetCode question created by the interviewer, not on the list. The second part of the interview was behaviora
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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.
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Seattle, Washington, United StatesNovember 19, 2025Initial phone call with a recruiter, followed by a 90-minute coding assignment. This consisted of standard LeetCode-style algorithm and data structures problems, loosely related to the specific role and easy to prepare for by using normal resources.
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Seattle, Washington, United StatesNovember 10, 2025Only one round for the intern position. The first part of the interview was technical questions. I got one "out of the box" question and one LeetCode question created by the interviewer, not on the list. The second part of the interview was behaviora
