Increase your core engineering competencies. Some smart people, as well as many average people. There is worse if you are desperate for a job.
Most people leave within a year. It's a brutal workplace, and people are generally unhappy.
On-call (unpaid overtime) and a lot of the work is operational, not particularly interesting projects.
It's very difficult to make suggestions or improvements. You are expected to do small tasks handed down by managers, and there are no excuses for delays for any reason.
Creative thinking is not welcomed at Amazon.
Other companies are much more effective in the way they operate. They make better use of their employees and are generally a much less hostile place to work. Why Amazon ever thought this was a good way to structure a company is beyond me.
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