Amazon Discover: Spring Insight Participant Review

by Amazon

Rating

5/5
  • Skills
    5.0
  • Business Insight
    5.0
  • Culture
    5.0
  • Your Impressions
    5.0

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of the insight and what was involved on a day-to-day basis.
  • Coding/Technical Workshop, interview skills, learning company's principals, meeting Amazonians.


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills or developed existing skills?
  • I have learnt so many valuable things about coding and interview skills. I have not experienced such deep concepts of programming in college yet, so I was very impressed and found myself improved those skills.


  • How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate the knowledge learned around industry-specific skills during the experience?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate the knowledge learned around personal or professional skills during the experience?
  • 5/5

  • Please rate how the knowledge learned has helped you with regards to your career development
  • 5/5

    Business Insight

  • 3. What was it like understanding all about the business and potential roles available?
  • In this workshop we only learnt about SDE and nothing about other related roles like network engineers or system administrations etc. I would have love to know other related fields like them as well.


  • Please rate how insightful you found the insight
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate the structure of the insight
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate business leader involvement during the insight
  • 5/5

    Culture

  • 4. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
  • Amazon really appreciate its company leadership principals which I found very impressive. All the Amazonian I have met through the workshop are very friendly and open to help anyone. I also love how diverse the culture that Amazon has. I am Japanese and studying in Ireland, so I could relate to the atmosphere like 120% which motivates me to work in Amaxon more.


  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate the networking opportunities?
  • 5/5

  • Please rate how valued you felt during your insight?
  • 5/5

    Your Impressions

  • 5. To what extent did you enjoy the insight?
  • I enjoyed this event more than I expected, even though I was very nervous on the coding workshop in particular. My mentor was very friendly and helpful although I had a little knowledge of programming. He was listening to my explanation always and make me feel comfortable in terms of working with the code.


  • Please rate your level of enjoyment on the insight
  • 5/5

  • Please rate how your experience met your expectations
  • 5/5

  • Please rate the future employment prospects at Amazon
  • 5/5

  • 7. Would you recommend Amazon to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 8. What tips or advice would you give to others applying to Amazon
  • Be curious to learn new things because Amazonian love helping people so you don't feel like you are not included.


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Details

Insight / Vacation Scheme (< 4 Weeks)

Computer Systems Engineering

International

April 2022


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