Amazon is fast-paced. You are working with some amazing customers doing amazing things with technology, and you are in the thick of it every day.
Internal systems are a joke. Work-life balance is largely non-existent. The pace is unrelenting and, above all, unrewarding. Employees are disposable assets (there's a reason for the very high turnover, which leads to a lack of continuity). Perks are non-existent, and "bonuses" are in the form of RSUs that don't vest for 2 years (and forget about pay rises).
Take a long look at the internal IT systems... they're a joke.
Look at how you reward people for working themselves into the ground.
Customer Obsession and Frugality is one thing, but at the rate of turnover, there's no continuity and no long-term ownership. Eventually, the house of cards will collapse (as it's starting to in AppStore).
Got an online assessment. It took me 3.5 hours and asked about Amazon values and questions about networking and Linux. If you have good IT fundamentals and decent reasoning skills, you should be fine.
1. Resume selected by the recruiter 2. 2-3 hours online technical and non-technical assessment 3. Phone interview (technical and non-technical, video call) 4. Loop interview (5 x 1-hour interviews)
It went quite well. The interviewer was very kind and accommodating. They asked expected and sensible questions. It was a very great interview. The interviewers were very professional and friendly. They were awesome.
Got an online assessment. It took me 3.5 hours and asked about Amazon values and questions about networking and Linux. If you have good IT fundamentals and decent reasoning skills, you should be fine.
1. Resume selected by the recruiter 2. 2-3 hours online technical and non-technical assessment 3. Phone interview (technical and non-technical, video call) 4. Loop interview (5 x 1-hour interviews)
It went quite well. The interviewer was very kind and accommodating. They asked expected and sensible questions. It was a very great interview. The interviewers were very professional and friendly. They were awesome.