A bit late to the party, but a lot of things that this post mentions are very similar to my own Amazon experience. - They asked me to write a four page essay b

A bit late to the party, but a lot of things that this post mentions are very similar to my own Amazon experience. - They asked me to write a four page essay before I was allowed to have an on-site interview. Exactly four pages. - The interview process was more exhausting than any company I'd interviewed at. They make almost no accommodations to make you feel comfortable. - I asked for a Macbook. They gave me an old Dell laptop. - I remember that the VC in the room we were initially in just didn't work. The recruiter spent a good amount of time trying to make it work before giving up and getting another room. I believe they had just switched the office over to Chime, which was not reassuring. - The editor they had me code in didn't actually run my code, nor did it have syntax highlighting. A big chunk of the top of the screen was covered by a banner ad, because apparently they weren't paying for it. - The recruiter and first interviewer were both late. I sat in an empty lobby waiting for someone to show up to tell me what to do while the receptionists yelled song requests to the Echo across the room. - The position was for "special projects," aka "top secret". All of my interviewers made sure to impress upon me how important the project was, but even after I got an offer, they wouldn't tell me what it entailed. I literally wouldn't find out what the project was until I signed the offer. - The title they offered me was "better" than the other two offers I got. But the compensation (including equity) was the worst: double digit percentage less than the next best offer.