I interviewed onsite in Sunnyvale for an SWE-SRE L5 role a week and a half ago. My recruiter said that "things look good" and that the next step was submitting my packet to the HC. It didn't sound like all of my interviewers had submitted feedback yet, and my recruiter didn't give me any specific feedback responses -- just that "things look good". I've seen a lot of mixed statements on Blind -- some people say you should team match first; others say team matching first is a sign of a weak profile. Can anyone (perhaps in Recruiting) provide a little more insight here? Current TC: ~300 but a good 30% is paper money
Your question is so dumb I wonder how you made it.
I don't believe it's that dumb of a question. There's a lot of vagueness in the multi-month long process, and any insight is helpful. You are, however, entirely entitled to hold that opinion. I hope you get a break from work some time soon.
Your answer is so dumb and useless, i wonder how you make into amazon? There is definitely a backdoor in amazon, not sure how you pass your bq test during the interview
Better than being directly rejected, but wouldn't be as strong as with a recommendation from HM following team match, in terms of the overall package
I wasn't given an option to do team matching prior to HC; my recruiter just laid out the process as such: HC, HM call(s), SVP, offer. Is that abnormal?
No, it is typical for an A- to A+ range candidate (by way of analogy), which is good if you are closer to the upper end of that spectrum, but not so much if you were A- because a B+ candidate would've been bumped higher to the equivalent of an A with an HM's letter of support.
Usually the recruiter explicitly telling you "it looks good" is a positive sign.
Right, but my recruiter also stated that we were still waiting on feedback from (at least one of) my interviewers, and didn't explicitly state what the existing feedback indicated, so I wasn't really sure how to take that.