Amazon treats it’s employees poorly in general but this especially true for new grads due to ... 1. There’s barely any documentation or mentorship. It’s a “sink of swim” culture. This is manageable if you have experience but if your a new grad your more likely to sink. 2. Amazon has a lot of confusing codebases due to tribal knowledge and tech debts. 3. Amazon is pip hungry. They’re specifically looking to pip people and manager love feeding unproductive new grads into this pip quota. You’ll either sink and get on devlist or swim and make it to SDE2 but in either case you’ll be stressed and miserable!
When did you make your shift from amzn to goog? What were your experiences?
This year. I spent one year at Amazon. I didn’t know how bad Amazon was because I joined as a new grad. I thought software engineering was just a difficult and stressful career but I realized it was amazon that was difficult and stressful. Google is great.
How’d you study for interviews?
Yeah, people shouldn't work for Amzn unless they absolutely have no other job
Why do you work at Amazon then
Because he probably absolutely has no other job..
Hi OP, I was also recently PIPED from Amazon with an total experience of 1 year. I also joined as fresh graduate. Can you guide us how you get Google interview calls and your preparation strategy .
Facts
counterpoint: I worked on a few teams and was fine. Not great. But fine. A good first job. Pays well and lots to learn. The posts on here make it sound like the worst place in the world. That wasn’t my experience.
I second this with my current experience
YMMV of course. I guess I think of it like the question “are there better engineers at F/G?” The answer is that there are great engineers at almost every company, but the variance is lower at top companies. Similarly, the variance of a shitty experience is lower at other companies as opposed to Amazon
Don’t waste your life. Stay the F away from Amazon
Why are you at Amazon then?
To afford payments on his toyota
I was at amazon too, but my experience was overall good. I had a great manager who was helpful and wlb was decent. I agree that they don’t have any documentation. Amazon wiki was practically useless. But my experience is just one data point out of many.
Agreed, i had a similar experience when i interned there. I was up at 4AM understanding the codebase. Plus this COVID situation made it worse bcz getting help from other became harder
I hear this a lot, but still seems better to take Amazon than a low-paying company with no growth or brand. Like if you had to choose from Amazon or a government contracting job that pays 80k, take Amazon of course. People going to Amazon don’t have the option of working at google or fb 95% of the time.
depends on what you really want. In suburb areas, 80K is alot plus good wlb. Amazon fucks you real hard, instead stock market is always open or now a days cyrpto. Fuck leetcode
Objectively bad decision to take the 80k job over Amazon given the option. If your focus is on career growth
3 years in and it’s facts
Big plus one
what do you mean ?