Amazon Discover Spring Insight Participant Review
by Amazon
Rating
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Skills
5.0
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Business Insight
5.0
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Culture
5.0
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Your Impressions
5.0
- 1. Please give an overview of the insight and what was involved on a day-to-day basis.
- 2. Have you learnt any new skills or developed existing skills?
- How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
- How would you rate the knowledge learned around industry-specific skills during the experience?
- How would you rate the knowledge learned around personal or professional skills during the experience?
- Please rate how the knowledge learned has helped you with regards to your career development
- 3. What was it like understanding all about the business and potential roles available?
- Please rate how insightful you found the insight
- How would you rate the structure of the insight
- How would you rate business leader involvement during the insight
- 4. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
- How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
- How would you rate the networking opportunities?
- Please rate how valued you felt during your insight?
- 5. To what extent did you enjoy the insight?
- Please rate your level of enjoyment on the insight
- Please rate how your experience met your expectations
- Please rate the future employment prospects at Amazon
- 7. Would you recommend Amazon to a friend?
- 8. What tips or advice would you give to others applying to Amazon
Overview
We were given a very informative introduction to the company and its work culture. The individual workshops were very helpful and truly covered a breadth of the type of programming skills required of a software developer. From pair programming, object oriented programming to even using GitHub as a development tool, I learnt new concepts which were extremely valuable.
Skills
Yes, programming skills, how to answer interview style questions, both in terms of the non technical and technical. The mentors were extremely helpful in introducing us to difficult concept and simplifying them down for us so we could implement them to the problem at hand.
Business Insight
Very useful. I thought amazon only hired software developers before but now I know they hire data scientists and other product managers too, which perhaps I may look into too.
Culture
very friendly, helpful and open to suggestions
Your Impressions
Very much. Highly enjoyed it
Yes
Go in with an open mind and ready to learn attitude. Its not expected for you to have known all the coding languages used there, so demonstrating that you can pick up skills fast is more important than being able to rely on previous knowledge .
Details
Insight / Vacation Scheme (< 4 Weeks)
Computer Science
London
April 2022
