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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Software Engineer
The interview consisted of two rounds, each lasting 60 minutes. Each round was divided into two sections: 45 minutes for a LeetCode question and 15 minutes for behavioral questions. I was given two LeetCode medium questions. I successfully solved
Software Engineer
1. Recruiter reached out for open roles for a new grad position. 2. OA consists of 2 Medium questions followed by a case study OA. 3. Scheduled for 3 x 60-minute virtual rounds: LeetCode, LLD, and LeetCode. Each round includes multiple LP question
Software Engineer
I applied through a recruiter who reached out to me. The process took about a month. First, I was given a take-home online assessment, then I moved on to a virtual onsite with four team members.
Software Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United StatesJune 14, 2023The interview consisted of two rounds, each lasting 60 minutes. Each round was divided into two sections: 45 minutes for a LeetCode question and 15 minutes for behavioral questions. I was given two LeetCode medium questions. I successfully solved
Software Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United StatesAugust 1, 20241. Recruiter reached out for open roles for a new grad position. 2. OA consists of 2 Medium questions followed by a case study OA. 3. Scheduled for 3 x 60-minute virtual rounds: LeetCode, LLD, and LeetCode. Each round includes multiple LP question
Software Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United StatesApril 1, 2022I applied through a recruiter who reached out to me. The process took about a month. First, I was given a take-home online assessment, then I moved on to a virtual onsite with four team members.
