I'm trying to figure out why people on Blind think Amazon engineers are subpar? All of my coworkers on my team are very talented and the managers are technical! I saw my skip level L7 manger write a bit of JavaScript... I'm learning new things every day... So why the negativity?
They are just jealous of the stock price
I am joining Amazon as L4 sde1, any tips on how to survive at Amazon. Or what to do during the first few months which will make my onboarding easier. Thanks for help đ
Yeah, when you get interview requests, ask to only be a lunch buddy. You can expense this food and essentially get free lunch. Do it as much as you can. This is my biggest advice.
Can confirm. My interviewer never used a paid cafeteria before meeting me.
I briefly worked there. My team had smart people but it would probably have been considered an "elite" team. On average, the talent isn't that great at amazon. Like just look at the new grads joining and how easy it is to cheat and do 2 online assessments and get an offer. My phone interview was a joke too. Got a variant of two sums and other interns got something like reverse a linkedlist.
Thatâs because it appears amazon prefers to filter candidates once they have begun working via PIP; or are you claiming that poor talent remained year after year without culling?
PIP can only filter out the bottom 7% per year. Even less if they abuse team transfers to inflate their performance. Never outside of Amazon have I seen an entire team of âengineersâ who donât know the difference between ctrl+c and ctrl+z in a terminal.
Our team/org has never hired anyone from online tests...
There are some great engineers at Amazon. Some even get stack ranked at the top, before theyâre managed out. The culture doesnât necessarily reward excellence, so thereâs also lots of technical debt and hacky solutions. Dev managers everywhere should be technical enough to write some code, however, especially at L7. Thatâs not the bar for âawesome.â
How long have you been there?
We've hired a lot of new folks/internal transfers...but they're all mostly solid..