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Besides H1Bs, and fresh graduates (who don't have any choice), I don't understand how Amazon can still higher Software engineers. I understand that Amazon teams are diverse, but as a candidate with any other possible option, how could anyone even consider amazon considering everything that's been written about the company already.

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I interviewed onsite a few weeks back and got bad vibes from five of the six interviewers. A few seemed to hate being there, and the others seemed like nightmares to work with. One guy was cool, though.

How about because Amazon develops some of the most interesting and innovative products out there? AWS, Alexa, Go Store, to name a few?

I've worked on several AWS services, and I'm very proud of being a part of them and of AWS in general. I bet there are very few other places where I would find problems this interesting or of this scale.

If you have some experience, you probably know better than just look for a job at company X - you probably choose specific role in a particular team or product. And Amazon sure does have a lot of great products with very interesting positions.

There are plenty of companies that have interesting projects and don't have such a toxic culture. GCP and Azure are the exact same technical challenge as AWS without all the Amazon BS.

I was answering why choose Amazon over "any other possible option" - because Amazon has awesome projects. If cultures at Microsoft or Google are less toxic is an unrelated topic.

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