I had a wonderful time working inside an AWS team in Seattle. The team was very welcoming and gave me plenty of responsibility while also maintaining a lot of support. The main things that stand out about Amazon are the transparency of recruiting, performance review, and promotion, the shared ambition of the firm, and the early responsibility you get even as a college student.
Amazon can be stingy about certain things. For example, you have to pay for your own lunch.
Amazon also has high expectations for a software firm, as you are expected to significantly contribute in some way towards Amazon's goals of satisfying customers. But those hardly seem like problems to me.
1. Online Assessment One round of mixed technical and behavioral questions. The OA is medium-hard, with three questions followed by a long list of MCQs containing behavioral questions. I have seen people get rejected due to the behavioral questions
The interview process involves several steps: * An online assessment * A behavioral assessment * A technical interview The process is relatively simple if your luck is good on the interview day.
It was an onsite interview with back-to-back, one-hour interviews on various topics. The interviews started with generic people skills, then progressed to problem-solving, covering topics from a high-level overview down to extremely low-level algorit
1. Online Assessment One round of mixed technical and behavioral questions. The OA is medium-hard, with three questions followed by a long list of MCQs containing behavioral questions. I have seen people get rejected due to the behavioral questions
The interview process involves several steps: * An online assessment * A behavioral assessment * A technical interview The process is relatively simple if your luck is good on the interview day.
It was an onsite interview with back-to-back, one-hour interviews on various topics. The interviews started with generic people skills, then progressed to problem-solving, covering topics from a high-level overview down to extremely low-level algorit