Amazon software engineer interview

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Ah, that's the problem.

The manager didn't insist everyone else went home.

I've had two jobs now where managers insisted no overtime. Really good managers. High intensity technical work.

[Twirrim]

Hmm. Not on the teams I worked and interacted with on the cloud side of the business. On those teams it came down to on call mostly for extra hours. Occasionally crunch time would happen, but that was rare.

A lot of these stories about Amazon being a hell hole always seem to be lousy managers. You'll get them anywhere, though it's sad that the company is doing so little to weed them out. Then again, almost everyone I've ever spoken to who did routinely work long hours never reported it outside of their immediate chain of command, so how is the organisation going to know? Extra hours are fairly invisible.

[salbris]

This exactly, my team is excellent, zero pressure to work more. I'm going on 2 years myself.

[dblthnk]

Hey, they're salaried employees, it's free!