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Amazon HR is not providing the level(or a range of levels) in which they are recruiting. All what HR says is “They can hire at any level depends on interview performance”. Is it really true ? I really don’t want waste my time travel from Bay Area to Seattle for an on-site without any solid answers. Please help with some insights
Ask for interview schedule and topics covered. If this is for SDE and if there's one or more system design hour (not component design) then you're interviewed at L6, but you could still get downleveled after the interview. For L7 there's some kind of panel I beleive and would probably require another on-site
This is not for SDE role .. it’s for a release engineer role
There are leveling guidelines and if there is doubt about what level you are, then they interview at the higher level. At Amazon the levels are incredibly broad. The higher tier of L5 and practically all L6 would be principals elsewhere.
I went from a Principal at a small startup to a high L5 at Amazon and still had a huge income increase.
Ohh.. how about L5 and L6 Salary range with bonus and RSU for Seattle location ?
L6 should be at least $350k
For an SDE, not a non tech role.
Is it L6 higher end TC ?
Travel from Bay to Seattle is an hour and a half. Same time zone so your commitment is minimal. Go and impress them and see what happens . If the role is cool and you can see yourself fitting in with the team then it’s going to be a great opportunity for you. There is no hotter company on planet earth right now and from the hundreds of interviews I’ve participated in, I can tell you Amazon typically levels ppl very appropriately and very fairly.
There is a level for the position you applied for. There can be 3 outcomes in terms of leveling. 1. You failed the interview. No offer. 2. You rocked the interview, offer with the proper level. 3. You did a okay interview, people gave a downleveled inclined, down leveled offer. For all the interviews I have been participated, about 20% same level gire, 30% down level, 50% rejection.
Lot of good information, thank you guys. One last question, how to prepare for on-site ? I heard LP is the key area since mine is not a SDE role. Any other tips ??
Try to find stories from your experience that can end up with "this is the example of [insert lp here]" Amazon really, really care about lp, almost every review document has to be align with those.
Your recruiter should have provided you with multiple documents for interview preparation. If they haven’t done that, let me know and I will make sure you get those documents.
Happened to me. I was interviewing for either L6 or L7.
Will HR mentioned level before on-site interview ?
They didn’t and they wasted my time.