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    Amazon on South African hiring spree - including IT and Prime Video posts

    I think it's a good place to work, otherwise I wouldn't work there.
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    Amazon is advertising over 300 jobs in South Africa

    IIRC, The Campus in Bryanston.
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    Amazon is advertising over 300 jobs in South Africa

    I don't think I can provide the salary band publicly but it is extremely competitive in the South African market, based on my (limited) market knowledge. Happy to have an off-line chat with you to discuss anything you might want to know and also happy to put you in touch with my recruitment...
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    Amazon is advertising over 300 jobs in South Africa

    I'd be interested to hear about it and to understand the reasons behind them leaving AWS. Were they software engineers?
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    Amazon is advertising over 300 jobs in South Africa

    Yes, the Senior Engineer link I sent is for an L6 role.
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    Amazon is advertising over 300 jobs in South Africa

    You must have at least 5 years of experience as a minimum requirement. Most engineers who would be considered as senior would have 10+ years of experience but the minimum is 5.
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    Amazon is advertising over 300 jobs in South Africa

    I think you'd find that Amazon offers one of the best work environments in South Africa. I'm interested in finding out what informed your views and am happy to chat and give you my perspective (as well as to put you in touch with some ex-Amazonians who can tell you about their experiences). If...
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    Software Development Engineer - Amazon Web Services (AWS)

    I'm a Software Development Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Cape Town. (Long time forum member, but aiming to keep my work profile separate from my personal profile). My team is in EC2 and I'm looking for engineers who'd be interested in joining the team. My services handle a significant...
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    Developer position at Amazon Web Services

    No software developer writes code in a vacuum, you design, build and maintain systems and code bases. This will always entail more than just churning out lines of code. If you're a good developer, you won't be wasting your time applying. You will at the very least learn something from the...
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    Developer position at Amazon Web Services

    If you read up on the definitions of * Earn Trust * Insist on the highest standards * Customer Obsession * Ownership These all speak to a need for integrity, as you're not going to achieve these without integrity
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    Developer position at Amazon Web Services

    There is a lot of info online around the Amazon interview process & what it is trying to elicit from candidates. Each person interviewing you is interrogating one or more leadership principles and their questions are designed to explore the principles that the interviewer is interviewing for...
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    Developer position at Amazon Web Services

    Well said. It seems a lot of the "c**p working conditions" talk comes from people talking about Amazon customer service positions
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    Developer position at Amazon Web Services

    PM sent
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    Developer position at Amazon Web Services

    This seems to be based on anecdotal evidence. I'd invite anyone with actual experience at AWS (especially at the Cape Town office) to provide a perspective. I asked 4 engineers just now how they feel the work life balance is and the responses were between fine and good.
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    Developer position at Amazon Web Services

    The interview process is normally a full day at the Amazon campus if you manage to make it that far through the process. It'll be a series of back to back 1 hour sessions, each one with a different interviewer. It's actually 5 1 hour sessions with an hour for lunch as well (the lunch hour is...
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