So I interviewed onsite with Amazon last week. I am late for my first interview (due to traffic) for 30 minutes and could not even give a reasonable solution for the system design question before running out of time. I did well in other two interviews and did just fair in my 4th interview. All technical questions are system design with very light coding. Nothing like leetcode algorithm problem. I thought I must fail due to the fucked up 1st session, but got an offer early this week... Cannot believe...Is the bar got lower these days?
SDE 1? With layoffs taking place (and myself looking for an internal transfer), this is either encouraging or discouraging for me — depending on where I land.
Believe or not I am interviewing for SDE3 because only this level can match my current compensation . Recruiter said the level is not decided yet but I will be surprised if they come back as an SDE3 offer
How big are the layoffs? I heard aws and Alexa are exempt
They need more people to feed to the oncall monster...
Alexa...? I think since there is minimum 6 reports per manager rule, some of them are quite desperate. BTW, promoting within the org(AWS) to SDE3 is fucking hard...Maybe I should just jump the ship to fulfill my self promotion, :/
Amazon has this “hire fast fire fast” thing going on where they hire anyone that breathes and quickly dev plans and pivots people out.
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Managers fish for lower bar candidates to meet their annual attrition goals.
Wow same case with me. They first wanted me to come onsite for SDE2 but recruiter told me that they cant match my current compensation with SDE2 so he will push for SDE3 loop. I have 6 years of total experience. Now havent g6ot any reply from him for 2 days :D
Probably a shitty team needing next bunch of people ti burn through
Hiring bar is a vanished term these days .... I am hearing lot's of examples Unfortunately, it's the case of bar being different across teams but pay being similar.... I would say, go with the offer....if you don't like the team, change to a different team
“Amazon” does not have a hiring bar. Never did and likely never will. Specific teams at Amazon do have hiring bars--think of it as a confederation of tiny mid-stage startups. There is no standardization whatsoever (a couple hours of half-assed interview training is theoretically required, but even that can actually be bypassed if the HM is desperate enough to stack a loop). Bar raisers are supposed to even things out a bit in theory, but rarely override/veto in practice unless the candidate is an obvious/total disaster or completely craters on the leadership principles (the one thing that is fairly consistent across the company). By the way: a “team” is ~3-10 people. Alexa and AWS and Robotics and whatever else aren’t “teams,” they’re massive orgs. Yes, the bar is often inconsistent even between teams within an org. Truthfully, the elite teams rarely hire externally; they mostly work through personal referrals and domain expertise, are kept small by design, and tend to have low turnover for various reasons. Random recruiters finding you online are almost certainly supporting some shitty ticket/body shop team (of which there are many).
I've been with Amazon for 6years.... It wasn't easy getting into Amazon back then..... Your statements do reflect the situation today but the first statement seems wrong about past
I've been around almost as long. It's just a remark about the fact that there's no real standard with respect to how teams hire, not that it was consistently "high" or "low."
You must have really done well in the other 2 interviews
I think they liked my behavior question. But those technical questions are not hard enough to “done really well”