Interesting work, frustrating experience
Interesting work, frustrating experience
The subject matter to work on at the company is extremely interesting, and you have the opportunity to try innovative solutions to problems if you can back them up with data.
Working at Amazon is all about the dates. Once the dates are set, management is willing to cut any corner in order to meet them, which leads to technical debt, lots of legacy code, and tribal knowledge about shortcuts taken. Also, you must take personal responsibility for your work-life balance. You will always have too much work to do to have a reasonable balance, so set your own boundaries with management, or 50-hour weeks will quickly become 60.
Set reasonable and transparent dates for projects to get better engineer buy-in and hopefully reduce technical debt and shortcuts at the end of projects.
Work with engineers on work-life balance to reduce engineer turnover and the amount of time spent getting new team members up to speed.
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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.
Software Engineer
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.
Software Engineer
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.
Software Engineer
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
