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Hi All, Confused and need suggestions. Please help Attended Amazon on-site interview in Seattle and was told next day they wanted to extend an offer. After that they arranged a call with a services team for a Job Description which has 3 years of experience requirement. I have more than 8 years of experience in Software Engineering. The team they are offering me looks like an IT team rather than Engineering, (branded as Engineering). I am more interested to work in their core product teams. My initial impression is they keep on pushing me to talk to this Service team. Should I take this offer or should I tell them am not interested in this team? No numbers disclosed yet.
Did you interview for that particular team? You can talk to recruiter for other team options
Actually I didn’t interview with that team at all. They called me on-site for interview with their devices team, in Seattle. I told recruiter am not interested and she forced me to atleast have a call with the manager. Not sure what to do after the call. Should I say not interested or just take numbers from them
Above all, make sure you're actually joining as an sde, not some other job category. Typically, you are interviewing for a specific team, but the rules have changed, and you can change teams as early as you want so maybe stock with your first team until you're ramped up on internal tooling/concepts, and if you're not happy in the space, stay looking around. A lot of the best opportunities are internal, and you get way more visibility into how people feel about the team, thanks to the tech survey.
+1 on this. Internal switching is easy. The only thing I won't compromise on is total compensation and role/ level. As you can't change that easily.
If you are not excited about the team, don't go there and get stuck for a year. By the time you can transfer, you might already be burned out
That’s my concern too. But most guys pointing out here is that it’s easy to switch teams so maybe considering that. As you said Don’t want to get stuck in services
For a switch after you've been less than 18 months on the team, you need your manager to cooperate. And they might not. If that happens you have no recourse
Thank you this helps. The role they are offering me is SDE. I am confused whether I should negotiate for the team before joining or as you said since it’s easy to switch , just join any team, ramp up and move around. Will it go against me if I negotiate for the team before hand ? For the compensation for Bay Area, do you know what’s the range like?
I received an offer for 175/105/150 base/bonus/rsu. For sde2 w/8yr of experience in the Bay Area
Thanks for the pointer. Can you share which team u get in
150 rsu over 4 years?
This is how Amazon operates, if they don’t like you for one team they try to find a position they like you for. Instead of telling you no they look for a fit.
Hi, but I didn’t interview with sales team. I actually interviewed with devices team. This is the first team they directly sent me towards.
Believe me, we say "no" to most people. Lots more than we say yes to or that we try to find another team for. If you're in this position, play a bit of hardball with the recruiter about the kind of role you want. If they are inclined, some hiring manager will place you somewhere.