Good pay for the location
Bad work-life balance and frequent on-call duties.
This was for a boomerang interview at Amazon. Since I am returning to the company within a year, there was no OA and no coding rounds. Just a one-hour interview, which was the bar raiser.
Phone call (brief) Code test (3 questions, behavioral) Phone interview (with one senior developer; code test + behavioral) Virtual On-Site (4 rounds: 2 senior developers, 2 managers including one hiring manager)
Terrible experience. Everything felt superficial. The interviewers were basically just reading from a script and expected me to do the same, using the STAR method. One of the interviewers was also quite mean. The four-hour interview loop felt repeti
This was for a boomerang interview at Amazon. Since I am returning to the company within a year, there was no OA and no coding rounds. Just a one-hour interview, which was the bar raiser.
Phone call (brief) Code test (3 questions, behavioral) Phone interview (with one senior developer; code test + behavioral) Virtual On-Site (4 rounds: 2 senior developers, 2 managers including one hiring manager)
Terrible experience. Everything felt superficial. The interviewers were basically just reading from a script and expected me to do the same, using the STAR method. One of the interviewers was also quite mean. The four-hour interview loop felt repeti