You will be able to learn a lot here. There are many interesting problems to be solved, and you can be the owner of the project pretty quickly.
Seattle. While it gets really cloudy from September to April, it has really nice summer weather. Also, it does not snow much.
Flexible hours. You can come to the office pretty late and leave late if you have to.
401k, medical insurance.
Free coffee, tea, and hot cocoa. You can have as many as you want.
You can bring your dog to the office. You will be able to meet a lot of dogs here.
Decent base salary with stocks. Amazon gives you a decent amount of salary.
On-call rotation. You will have to carry a pager and be on alert 24 hours because one of the software that you manage can go down, and the system needs a way to tell you about it. It is not fun for anyone to wake up at 3 AM or 6 AM once a week to solve a problem. This leads to a lot of time spent on operations rather than developing your skill sets.
Bad work/life balance. Tight deadlines. On Thursday, a problem gets escalated and you need to solve it by the next Monday, before your manager's meeting, which means you have to spend your weekend. This happens very frequently depending on your team.
Not much room for salary increase. The amount of increase in your salary will probably be the lowest in the industry unless you get promoted. If you are exceptional but did not get promoted, you will likely get an increase around the inflation rate (or lower). You will soon be able to find out that people who joined a year or two later than you are getting a higher salary with less skills.
Frugality. You don't get free food or perks. You will have to work everything on your single monitor, and they will not accept your request to have multiple monitors.
This is just a minor thing, but a 780 square foot office with 11 developers and 2 managers isn't a good place to focus on your work. You will be able to hear a dog barking every other 10 minutes in the office next to you.
Amazon is infamous for its high turnover rate, and obviously, there is a reason for that. The management needs to realize the cost of developers leaving the company and treat employees well to prevent it. Otherwise, developers will leave, and future developers will need to catch up and clean past works while keeping tight deadlines for new projects.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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