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gdulli on July 8, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Amazon software engineer interview

The best prep you can do for getting a job at Amazon is to read up on what it's like to be an employee of Amazon.

khedoros on July 8, 2016 [–]

I've got a good friend working at Amazon now, and I've spoken with about 5 other Amazon employees. None of them has ever seen the kinds of abuse identified in the New York Times article from last year. So like anything else: take it with a grain of salt.

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