Everyone here says Amazon sucks. Probably they have lowest bar among FAANG, but honestly it'd be dope if I get their new grad offer.
You meant to say FAANG? 🤔
Which A did you took out? 🎅
I think a lot of it is low hanging fruit and easy to talk shit about. But the lack of benefits and general treatment of employees (no stock refresh, low single digit raises etc) is a big reason it gets a lot of hate I think.
lack of benefits ?
Yeah 401k match is a joke. Like 4% of base matching (160k capped base btw) that vests over 2 years so if you leave before the 2 years you don’t even get it lol
I suspect some is from those who don’t realize how good they have it. Try spending some time in fintech for a reality check.
Well their new grad bar is the lowest of all the FAANGs right now so you’re hoping for it at a good time. They just have virtual rounds and no on sites and sometimes the virtual rounds are just a formality based on how you did on OA2.
You know FAANG is a stock coined term not a how good the company is or hiring bar term right?
Amazon hires lots of engineers as swe and makes them work on support giving them tons of oncall duty. That is why they have structured their rsu vesting schedule so that people would be forced to stay longer in shitty job. They are frugal when it comes to spending extra bucks on employees, bonuses etc. Having said that there are few strong teams with great projects but good luck fighting to get good scope on them if you are looking to move to sde3. That I think is the major reason folks hate amazon.
What’s a place that doesn’t just place their swes on support duty?
I personally feel Apple's SWE bar is lower than Amazon.
seriously ?? how ? I'm mainly talking about new grad
I think for new grad it’s FB, Google >> Amazon >= Apple. No Netflix because they don’t hire new grads.
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