Amazon Women of the World Spring Technology Insight Event Review

by Amazon

Rating

4.5/5
  • Skills
    4.0
  • Business Insight
    4.7
  • Culture
    5.0
  • Your Impressions
    4.7

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of the insight and what was involved on a day-to-day basis.

    • An online experience from 1pm-5pm. This involved a hackathon using HackerRank. This had 6 questions of varying difficulty which each had a certain number of points available. This gave good practice for problem solving. The event also spoke a bit about amazon as a company and some employees roles.

    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills or developed existing skills?

    • I have improved my skills in Ruby and my general problem solving skills. It has also highlighted that I should expand my knowledge in Ruby or Python as my main programming knowledge is in Java.

  • 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?

    • 4/5
  • How would you rate the knowledge learned around personal or professional skills during the experience?

    • 3/5
  • Please rate how the knowledge learned has helped you with regards to your career development

    • 4/5

    Business Insight

  • 3. What was it like understanding all about the business and potential roles available?

    • It was quite interesting to learn about some of the key values of Amazon and what day-to-day life is like at Amazon. It made me excited to try and apply for the 2025 internship.

  • Please rate how insightful you found the insight

    • 4/5
  • 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?

    • It seemed like an inclusive culture and atmosphere. It seems like a great place to innovate and excel. Amazon seems to focus on customer-centric design where opinions are valued.

  • 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 really enjoyed this opportunity. I found it useful to highlight my stronger skills and my weaker skills. I feel like it has improved my general problem solving.

  • 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

    • 4/5
  • 7. Would you recommend Amazon to a friend?

    • Yes

  • 8. What tips or advice would you give to others applying to Amazon

    • Look for other insight events like this one. Learn a language more similar to python than Java as Java can be very verbose which can make some of the challenges harder than needed.

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Details

Insight / Vacation Scheme (< 4 Weeks)

Software Engineering

London

April 2024

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