Amazon recruit huge numbers of graduates, so obviously that's a yes. I think their graduate roles pay quite well too.
But if this article is to be believed, they also do things like using 15 different languages on the tech stack (16 to choose from minus PHP because it's banned) and give you the idea that estimates are worthless. If your workplace is doing things like that it's a very bad sign in my opinion.
> they also do things like using 15 different languages on the tech stack
Teams have a lot of flexibility to choose the best tool for the job. It's not surprising that you'd have those options if you're tackling everything from UAV avionics to distributed systems to facial recognition.
It's not surprising that you'd have those options if you're tackling everything from UAV avionics to distributed systems to facial recognition.
Amazon as a company might use them all, but no Amazon team should be choosing between them all (well, they do in so far as you can immediately rule out lots of unsuitable languages for most projects). This guy has worked on two teams so far and appears to be suggesting he's made choices between 15 languages already. That either means the teams he's been on have used wild stacks with endless choice (a reason not to work there) or that he's not correct about the extent of choice he had (and if someone has 5 years at a company and they still don't know that's another reason not to work there).
