Good to have on your resume for next future jobs
No work life balance, 60+ hours is the expectation for everyone
Have my bar raiser tomorrow for L5 SWE. I'm done with 3 rounds and I think i did decent. I just wanted to know if the LPs from my previous rounds will be repeated in the the bar raiser round. I had like 10 storied in total, and I've already used up 6 of them. #amazon @amazon
Most isn’t my original. Someone from Google posted in a comment that is too funny not to share. Amazon LPs: - PIP Obsession - Bias for PIP - Hire to Develop the Devplan - Ownerpip - PIP, A Lot - Insist on the Highest URA Quota - Invent and Simply PIP - Disagree and get PIP My own contributions: ...Read more
Who tf asks so many LP questions and how many can I even answer "in detail" with 4 years of experience? How many frickin' times can I invent and simplify? Who tf had metrics that defined change in my team? seriously you allow junior-mid engineers to do that everywhere ? Most of the preparation goes ...Read more
If you havent faced the situation asked in the LP round, can you directly say you havent faced it and ask your interviewer to ask you something else? or just cook something up right then and there? got an onsite coming up in a week. LP = Leadership Principles
Amazonians how do you tolerate working for such a narcissistic organization. #amazon
Idk I’ve been here for only 4 months but this LP stuff sounds sooo cultish! what are y’all’s take on it? TC 350K
"Strive to be Earth’s Best Employer" When do you guys think they'll get to this one?
Has anybody ever heard of a table of Amazon Leadership Principle Strengths and Concerns? Supposedly it shows strengths and weaknesses in a candidate's answers. tc: 600
How to preprare for Amazon LP as a new grad? Interviewing in a week.
#amazon Based on https://www.amazon.jobs/en/principles and my 4 years of experience at AWS Customer Obsession Leaders start with the customer and work backwards. They work vigorously to earn and keep customer trust. Although leaders pay attention to competitors, they obsess over customers. Read ...Read more
how do u make leaders by asking them to follow someone/ something ?
What leadership principles will a candidate be assessed for the L7 (IC-Principal) role? #tech #Amazon #amazonaws
Hi Has anyone ever successfully got L6 offer at Amazon by telling 50% fake or made-up stories backed up by logical data and metrics? I can beautifully create those for some of my past projects. TC: 245k YOE: 8 #amazon #faang #google #microsoft #aws #meta #facebook
So Amazon just added two new leadership principles. This fucking moronic company and their Orwellian LPs. The first month at Amazon is total indoctrination with watching piece of shit videos about their LPs . The ones who get indoctrinated survive there the rest are PIPed.
QQ: if one loop interviewer asks a question from "deliver results" LP, does that mean the rest of my interviewers won't ask me that LP? #amazon
I'm currently interviewing at Amazon and have a phone interview coming this week. I've been putting in a lot of effort in practicing coding problems that I didn't get time to prepare for LPs. So guys If you had just 1 or 2 day, how would you prepare for behavioral/LP questions? TC: 🥜 Position's l...Read more
So I know you're supposed to talk about LPs in the interviews at Amazon. How exactly do you do that? Is it "Tell me about a time you said no to a stakeholder" and then you answer, "Well as Amazon leadership principle X states..." Or is it more subtle, you just tell a story that reflects LPs and trus...Read more
Hello! I just went through an Amazon loop and prepared 26 stories. I have a Google loop in 2 days and did not prepare anything specifically for the Googleyness round - planning to use all the Amazon stories. What do you recommend I prepare in addition to this for Google behavioral? #Amazon #Goog...Read more
While other companies like Meta are destroying the cushy lives of their employees in an effort to cut costs and become frugal Amazon has always been frugal and doesn't need to engage in these practices. Stability > all