Grinds you down
Grinds you down
Some very strong engineers and the occasional pleasant manager work here.
Compensation.
Amazon's culture makes sure that if you stay long enough, you will be a husk of what you were when you started: frustrated, jaded, and burnt out.
- Very high bar to clear to get to senior.
- Poor upper management.
- Very poor work-life balance, super common to see working into the late hours of the night and on weekends.
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The interview process assesses candidate proficiency in algorithmic problem-solving and scalable System Design. Expect LeetCode-style questions covering fundamental algorithms and data structures, including: * Graph traversal like DFS and BFS *
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3 interviewers, 1 hour each, virtual interview over Amazon Chime. * 1 full behavioral interviewer * 1 behavioral + LeetCode-style question related to Amazon streaming services * 1 design question interviewer related to Amazon streaming service
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Home assignment and then a technical interview. The home assignment consisted of two LeetCode problems on HackerRank. I did not pass the technical interview phase. This covered system design and LeetCode. They asked questions about linked lists.
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Ireland, Indiana, United StatesNovember 3, 2025The interview process assesses candidate proficiency in algorithmic problem-solving and scalable System Design. Expect LeetCode-style questions covering fundamental algorithms and data structures, including: * Graph traversal like DFS and BFS *
Software Engineer (Swe II)
United StatesSeptember 22, 20253 interviewers, 1 hour each, virtual interview over Amazon Chime. * 1 full behavioral interviewer * 1 behavioral + LeetCode-style question related to Amazon streaming services * 1 design question interviewer related to Amazon streaming service
Software Engineer (Swe II)
BrazilJuly 16, 2025Home assignment and then a technical interview. The home assignment consisted of two LeetCode problems on HackerRank. I did not pass the technical interview phase. This covered system design and LeetCode. They asked questions about linked lists.
