Had a horrible manager at my last team at Amazon, who put me on dev plan, to save his as$. Then I was attacked verbally and physically by one of the teammates simply because I "disagreed and committed" instead of "agreeing and committing". (Yea, physically too. A 5 years old kid is more mature than him). Reporting to the HR didn't do anything. So I started to LC. Solved 100 questions, in about 3 months (1.5 hours per day, excluding weekends). Took my remaining 1.5 weeks of PTO to do the onsites, one after the other: Failed G onsite (the feedback was that I was extremely close and solved the questions optimally, but I needed to be faster.) Fb: Recruiter said they didn't have open positions for E4. Got offers from Lyft, MS, Oracle, Airbnb, Uber and Apple. Chose Apple at the end because of their highest TC and good WLB. Yoe: 4 Apple TC: 360k, ICT4 Amazon's TC: 160k Thanks to everyone who provided great info on Blind.
That’s amazing congrats! What are the levels and TC for the other offers you got (lyft, ms, Oracle, Airbnb, Uber)?
Too much to type haha! I used Uber, Lyft and Airbnb to practice interviewing, because I really didn't want to go. Didn't expect an offer from them either! Oracle was also for practice (the very first one), but their interview questions, TC, level and everything was a joke! I did consider MS though because of its chill WLB, but their TC was much lower, plus it's in Seattle.
Nice! Are they L4 offers or L5 (senior)? Your Apple offer is pretty strong. You should interview as E5 at Facebook. I did earlier this year at 4 yoe too and got a ~500k offer
160 to 360!!!! Congrats OP, genuinely happy for you. I feel so lame to be in HW.
Thanks man! The preparation period was really tough because I had to deal with the daily pressure and B.S. of the manager and that teammate, while trying to stay positive and practice LC. But I'm so happy it paid off.
Good for you man! I am a female lol 😂
Congrats man I'm trying to leave amazon ass well! How were the interview difficulties for each companies? Also what was your LC breakdown? Easy, med and had?
Don't remember exactly but like 20/60/20. G, U, and Apple were not easy (DP, graph). MS, Lyft and Airbnb were so so (no DP, mostly LC medium). Oracle was laughably easy!
Is the culture at Amazon really that bad where you have to blindly take orders from a superior *that could have no clue wtf they’re talking about* just because the culture says so?
Its really depends on the manager for the most part
I've been in good teams, can't deny that. But if the manager is an as$hole, then you don't have any power. You simply fall.
Congrats! Hard work pays off.
Congratulations and you deserved this. Thanks for sharing with us. Sometimes it’s not worth the fighting and you did right thing.
You have a good case to sue Amazon. I used to be at Amazon and had an ex colleague sue them after a similar toxic experience and earn a big settlement.
I might do so later on, when I establish my feet at Apple. I don't want to do it right now, because I'm still new and don't want my career to be sabotaged by that horrible teammate, as a defense mechanism. Especially that HR didn't do anything about it, it makes me believe that if I start a war, HR and Amazon in whole will try to defend HR's decision (i.e. not doing anything when I reported it) and my assumption is that their lawyers are stronger than whoever I hire.
Great job!
Which LC? Easy? Medium? Hard?
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Physically? Like he slapped you or something?
Close to that. Sorry can't be more specific to stay anonymous.
Why you even wanna be anonymous! Is he gonna find you and assault you? Just let everyone know the team and the org which would prevent others from facing the same