Innovative But Sinking Talent
Innovative But Sinking Talent
Focusing on the customer brings out the best innovation.
Fast-paced for the size of the company, with fewer processes to bother about.
New ideas and experiments.
As the company grew, the talent level started dwindling. The average talent is abysmally low for its reputation.
In a rush to hire, lots of ICs were promoted to middle management without any gauging of their management skills.
Lots of managers were hired who are not accustomed to the 14 leadership principles of the company, which are the pillars of Amazon's success. There is no attempt to run an orientation for these managers to align themselves with the leadership principles.
Candid feedback results in backlash instead of verifying the feedback.
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This was a pretty tough coding interview. I'll probably have to grind LeetCode for a few weeks to prepare for it. They want you to not only write code that solves the issue but also to have the code be maximally efficient.
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Applied in December and completed the OA in January. Then, I scheduled three 45-minute interviews. Each interview followed the same format: questions about leadership principles and behavioral scenarios, followed by one coding question (LeetCode Med
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The interview process involved three 1-hour interviews. There was a one-hour break after the first two interviews. The interviews were pretty straightforward with LeetCode questions. They prefer a fast approach and value speed over quality. Make su
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Seattle, Washington, United StatesJanuary 1, 2024This was a pretty tough coding interview. I'll probably have to grind LeetCode for a few weeks to prepare for it. They want you to not only write code that solves the issue but also to have the code be maximally efficient.
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Seattle, Washington, United StatesFebruary 1, 2022Applied in December and completed the OA in January. Then, I scheduled three 45-minute interviews. Each interview followed the same format: questions about leadership principles and behavioral scenarios, followed by one coding question (LeetCode Med
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Seattle, Washington, United StatesJuly 12, 2025The interview process involved three 1-hour interviews. There was a one-hour break after the first two interviews. The interviews were pretty straightforward with LeetCode questions. They prefer a fast approach and value speed over quality. Make su
