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Day in the life of an SDE at Amazon India

Sachin Ahuja

7/13/2025

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A lot of people ask me about WLB at Amazon so here's my typical day (SDE-1, Hyderabad):

9:30 AM - Log in, check emails, Slack messages
10:00 AM - Daily standup (15 mins)
10:15 AM - 1:00 PM - Coding, code reviews, debugging
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM - Lunch break
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM - More coding, design discussions
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM - Meetings (sprint planning, 1:1s)
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM - Wrap up, respond to CRs

I usually log off by 7 PM. On-call weeks are rough though - had to wake up at 3 AM once for a production issue.

Overall WLB is decent, team dependent. AMA.

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Comments (5)

Lauren Liu9/9/2025

I've heard Amazon can be intense. How would you compare it to other tech companies in India in terms of work-life balance?

Ritesh Pandey8/12/2025(edited)

Nice breakdown! How is the culture during meetings? Are they more idea-focused or status updates?

Urvi Iyer8/7/2025(edited)

That's a pretty packed schedule! Do you feel like you have enough time for personal projects outside work?

Anna Mueller8/1/2025

Thanks for sharing, Sachin! How frequent are the on-call weeks? Just curious how they impact your weekend plans.

Anna Mueller7/23/2025

Do you get to work on different projects or is it mostly the same stuff?