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by amazonthrowaway 11y ago
To be fair, Microsoft and the big Silicon Valley companies have suburban campuses. Amazon is in the middle of a big city. I think the parking allowance is something like $130/month.
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by amazonthrowaway 11y ago
Payscale.com puts the average employee tenure at 1 year, which is very low, but comparable to Google (1.1 years). Apple is 2 years, Microsoft is 4 years. http://www.payscale.com/data-packages/employee-loyalty/full-
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by amazonthrowaway 11y ago
I think there's a bit of a disconnect between genuinely caring about people and treating them like criminals. I can understand drug testing a truck driver, but drug testing developers makes no sense to me.
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by amazonthrowaway 11y ago
Base salaries for execs top out at something like $175,000. Is that what you're defining as "decent but not great"?
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by amazonthrowaway 11y ago
Doesn't Walmart drug test everyone?
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by amazonthrowaway 11y ago
I don't think the description of people's experiences is bullshit. I can only speak for what I've witnessed in the company, which is a fair amount. However, there are cases where the writers clearly misconstrue things or take
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by amazonthrowaway 11y ago
I would define it as a question about how you handled a particular type of situation or how you would handle a particular situation. I think it's primarily used in contrast to a coding question.
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by amazonthrowaway 11y ago
Yes, it's true that as part of the interview process they ask behavioral questions to try to use the leadership principles to evaluate a candidate. An example might be, "can you tell me about a time when you had to build something
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by amazonthrowaway 11y ago
No
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by amazonthrowaway 11y ago
David Streitfeld has written a number of strident, highly-critical articles on Amazon. What he's writing here doesn't reflect my experience as an SDE in a couple of different divisions in the company. I can't speak to what pe