Google/amazon/fb hiring process
Since google/fb/ amzn hiring process is pretty much same for all (swe/engineering ) , how does it matter if you apply for their posting for job A/B or C ... if you have to go thru same rounds of coding interview and later you have to pick the project you want to work at. Or does the process differs based on your experience and position you are applying? Can you guide for a 12+ yr exp in IT (web, data engineering, anlytics etc.. area)
Even if I apply for data engineering or similar role, should I expect coding interview /algorithms etc like swe positions or it should be mostly data related ? Thought to check on how much time I need to spend on leetcode ahead of time.
Amazon is not the same process as FB/G. Amazon you interview with the team (sometimes two teams) you will be working with. The bar is supposed to be the same regardless of team though. The other difference is that amazon doesn’t really do the leetcode interview style. It is more more focused on what you’ve done to prove yourself rather than what you’ve memorized. This obviously isn’t the best pattern for junior people but at the same time leetcode isn’t good for the senior people.
I agree with the first part of this. I would summarize the Amazon interview process as: (1) be able to work around the horrible open ended behavioral questions “tell me about a time you encountered a struggle btw?” (2) know everything there is to know about Binary Search Trees (3) be otherwise decent at Java and OOP; (4) get a job offer
This is not always true. Amazon recruiters keep reaching out to me and invite me to some generic recruiting events where you don't interview for a specific team. In fact, I finally decided to give it a try and will have a generic SDE interview with Amazon this Monday.
They all have pre-allocated jobs to fill. If you apply for a pre-allocated job req, you are likely to interview with specific people. Otherwise, you interview with a group of people from a general pool of interviewers and choose teams later on in the on-boarding process. You can ask the recruiter about the position you are interviewing for, but if they are recruiting for a specific role and you prefer not to be pre-allocated, it might be hard to persuade them to help you out.