Bye bye, Amazon.com!
Today was my last day at Amazon.com. I finished up my project, made sure the documentation was all in place, and sent some farewell emails. Then at the end of the day when all my coworkers told me to go home, I turned in my badge(s), laptop, and other miscellaneous stuffs and took off. I had a great time working there. The team was great, and I think for a first internship I really learned a lot about how corporate work in software engineering is done. Now I just need to update my resume, cross my fingers, and hope they call me back for another shot!
Update:
Funny thing–a guy just emailed me and asked:
I was looking around about amazon internships and stumbled onto your blog. I just wanted to e-mail
you and see if you’d be willing to let me know a little about the experience. I would really like to intern
there next summer, although I am not sure I will have enough experience to pass the interview. How did
you like it? How was life outside the building? Look forward to hearing back from you
I sent him the following more detailed note about my summer:
Today was my last day working at Amazon.com, but I loved every minute of it. My team was great! I worked for the Procurement team, which is responsible for buying all of the products that Amazon sells from their respective vendors. My job over the summer was to write a metrics framework for evaluating group progress towards business goals. I eventually created a start-to-finish solution that took raw data and after some work gave you metrics numbers. The metrics framework had to be scalable, extendable, sturdy, and fast.
Outside the Amazon buildings (there are four in Seattle), there’s a lot to do. Just the other day I went out with a friend from Cornell and a bunch of other people I didn’t know, and a couple Seattle party crashers for dinner and afterparty. There shouldn’t be any lack of fun.
From your email I would assume you’re a rising sophomore? What classes have you taken? Read this article here:
elliottback.com/wp/archives/2005/08/04/how-to-hire-the-best/
Then tell me, at the bottom, if you can write good versions of strstr, is_anagram, and atoi in at least two of c, c++, c#, java, lisp, or perl.
It’s interesting that young people are so worried about interviews, and preparing for them. I’m not going to give away any interview secrets, but not because there actually are any. Rather, you just need to be competent, self-confident, experienced, and winsome!
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If you are interested in applying to amazon, i have some positions where i can try to fit you in.
mail me your updated resume to aman.singh@mastech.com