The process starts with a conversation with a recruiter, who will tell you that Coupang is South Korea's answer to Amazon, and leadership is made up of a lot of former Amazon employees. I was assured that the culture was not similar to Amazon, but that is not at all what I found. The next step was a one hour phone interview with an engineer. The person who called me was not interested in having a conversation, he just asked coding questions the entire time, using Collabedit. He didn't seem interested in following along with what I was doing, and was clearly putting me on mute, probably to focus on his tasks at work. The next step was a five hour in-person interview. The interview time, and people scheduled to talk to me changed once before I went in, and I was informed of another change once I arrived for the interview. One of my interviewers was very late, while another acted like he simply didn't want to be there. Almost every person in my interview process was a former Amazon employee. They seemed more concerned about having questions answered exactly as they wanted, as opposed to being willing to think about alternative solutions that may be more efficient. It was also the first time I had an interviewer decide to take a break during the interview, and leave the room. There doesn't seem to be any effort to present themselves well. It's definitely an Amazon culture. If you're looking for Amazon 2.0, here it is.
