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- Alexa on-site I have an on-site at Alexa but all the rounds consist of coding rounds. Haven't seen this ever considering Amazon interviews have at least one Sys design round for new grads. Has anyone else experienced this? #amazon #alexa #onsite
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- Upcoming Amazon on-site (Alexa) Hi All, I have an interview coming up with Amazon for backend @Alexa team. Any tips? LC 132/126/24 TC 140K Tnx..
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- What’s the process of Internal Transfers in Amazon? Why they say it’s easy? Just curious if someone wants to move to Alexa or Aws do they apply online? Or through an internal site
- Anyone Interviewed with Amazon Alexa team recently? I'll be having an on-site interview with Amazon Alexa team next week. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance! YOE: 2 Role: SDE I Level: L4
- Interview with Alexa I have an on-site interview with Alexa the next week. I have leadership principles covered with examples fromy past experiences. I am pretty decent with System Design/ Architecture. What level of LC should I expect in the interviews. I was told expect part of each interview to cover LP. Have been do
- Approached by an Alexa Recruiter I am based in NYC. 1.5 YOE. I was approached by an Alexa Recruiter from Seattle last month. Passed OA this week. The recruiter is planning to schedule a on site interview next week. I just found Alexa does not have teams in NYC where I prefer to stay. What is the best way to make me being noticed b
- How should I prepare for Amazon SDE1 virtual on-site in 2 weeks? About four months ago, I ended my leetcode grind. I did 45 easies, 40 mediums, 5 hards. I haven’t leetcoded since but now may have the opportunity to do a virtual on-site in two weeks. What should I spend my time doing for the next two weeks with 1 hour of work a day to optimize my success for SDE1
- Amazon on site 1. Tips for Amazon on site 2. What they look for L5? Wanna aim L5 or high L4 3. The on site request questionnaire asks for salary expectations. What should I put? 4. How is Alexa Shopping Team? 2 internships, 1 full year co-op with university Full time YOE - 1 year TC: 180K (gonna be promoted soon
- Good sites for recent interview questions I have done 300 leetcode questions and have refreshed many from geeksforgeeks as well. I have an interview coming for Amazon Alexa next month. Any good sites to look for recent interview questions? Note: I have gone through 1) Glassdoor: Most people just say, can’t disclose due to NDA 2) Careercup
- Amazon Applied Scientist 1 Team Match help Hi, I recently cleared virtual on-site for AS 1, Alexa teams but the recruiter told me the role I interviewed for got downsized/closed so now I’m in a team matching stage instead. Any Applied Science folks working in NLP/ASR (specially Alexa teams). Please let me know if your team is hiring. Much
- Snowflake vs Microsoft vs Rubrik vs Google Currently at Alexa. YOE: 3 total, 1 at Amazon | L4 | Current TC: 160k Have an offer from Snowflake. Level IC2 | TC: 300k Is going to Snowflake a good idea right now given the stock volatility and high competition from Databricks etc., ? Offer is good. I find the team and culture to be a great fit
- Rejected after on-site round at Amazon, no feedback given and recruiter says feel free to apply to other jobs at amazon Recently went through an on-site round of amazon Alexa and after that recruiter emailed me that they won’t be moving forward. But didn’t mention about cooling period(6 months) and said that my application would be in system for other hiring managers and recruiters for consideration. Recruiter even m
- link Anyone else's company internal website ugly? Amazon is not known for its designs. Whether you look at Kindle, amazon.com retail website, Ring, Alexa, etc., none of them make you think, "wow they really took care to make these things look nice." They're passable at best. Well, the internal sites are even uglier. To some extent, FB also has a
- Amazon Alexa shopping onsite interview - SDE II Hi there. TL;DR I'll have an on-site interview in Bay Area soon, and I'd like to get some advices from Blind users. Should I expect more System Design and LP, or they will focus more on LC/DS/algo? (like they do for SDE I interviews?) I've read that Alexa shopping is not a org under Alexa, and it
- Amazon Applied Scientist Team Match Hi, got email from recruiter with positive news after virtual on-site for applied scientist role with Alexa teams. But mentioned that I’d have to wait for team matching. How long for team match? Don’t the interviewing teams hire the candidate after giving positive feedback? TC-118k YOE - 3.5 PS-
- How to get SDE 3 at Amazon as an outsider? Bay area, Alexa team I recently gave Amazon on-site interview in the hiring event for Alexa and got the offer pretty quickly. They are offering SDE2. I have 7+ years of work experience and want them to consider me for SDE3. What will it take for me to persuade them for this? Will competing offers help? Or simply putting
- Amazon Phone interview. What to expect? Sorry for another post about Amazon. I have a phone interview coming up for the Alexa team. I've been sent the link for coding and it's for 1 hour. Going through blind posts, this is what I've gathered. Prepare for leadership principles ( or is this only for on-site?), Design question, and leetcode
- How do you know you did well on LPs I feel I did well and answered all their questions. I could tell who the BR was, as he was insisting on getting all his data points. This is for a L6 role within the Alexa team. 3 days after the on-site you start getting second thoughts although I felt really good leaving the place. BTW are the BR
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- Amazon, Downleveled to L5 from L6 SWE I am in process of interviewing with Amazon Alexa in SoCal. I had online tech screen, then a phone screen to decided between L5 and L6. Afterwards was told was downleveled to L5. I really think the reason wasn't able to show lot of pratical experience leading projects or having much of an impact wit
- vote Amazon Interview Dilemma I have an upcoming Amazon virtual "on-site" interview for SDE-2. The recruiter asked me to prepare system design questions including databases etc (3 coding rounds and 1 system design). Since I don't have much background there it got me thinking if its worth a shot or not. I'm skilled in system soft
- Interview for sr. Tpm - Amazon Alexa science team Hi all, I am currently a tpm from a non-FANG company, and in a week will be interviewing on-site for a sr. Tpm role at the Alexa science team in Pittsburgh. I am wondering if anyone can shed some lights on the technical part - would it be more focus on the traditional system design/distributed sys
- Amazon Applied Scientist interview prep I am invited for a virtual on-site loop for applied scientist role with one of the Alexa AI teams (ASR side). Any Amazon AS here? Would like to know what you guys look for in the candidate generally. I see that there’s a one hour presentation as part of the loop. Are the rest of the rounds based on
- link Catalog of FAANG interview information Hey Blind, I'm currently interviewing for SWE positions at several companies and periodically read Rooftop Slushie to help with my interviews. I made a reading list and I picked out some posts that were helpful for me which I organized by company. There aren't tons of posts about SWE for every comp
- 800+ leetcode and top 1k or better in contest still no FAANG or new offer Been trying for more than a year. Failed Amazon twice. Google, FB, MSFT, Apple and Zoom. All on-sites. So close yet so far. I consistently do LC, even in contests. I’m at my wits end sacrificing my 20s in chase for stability. most of the time, it’s the speed that costs me. Even the math/stat ba
- Interviewing at Facebook as a non-user I am about to do my on-site at Facebook, and I am concerned about how exactly I will answer the questions about why I want to work there, as I am currently not a user of Facebook or Instagram. Can anyone from Facebook advise on how I might approach these questions? I'm not trying to game the inter
- vote Go to Meta/FB or stay at Amazon? TPM Hello, TLDR - stay at AMZN or go to FB/Meta when TC would go up in year one, then down in year 2, but then higher again in year 3 when my AMZN cliff comes up. I am an L6 TPM at Amazon in the Alexa org. I have an offer from Meta/FB for an E5 TPM role with Meta in Reality Labs. I am in a smaller m
- SysDe (Systems Development Engineer) at Amazon I recently interviewed with Amazon for an SDE role (Alexa) and did only ok during the virtual onsite. I received feedback that I did well with leadership principles and on the behavioral portions, but didn't do quite as well with the coding exercises. Apparently, it was recommended by them that I wo
- Failed Amazon on-site interview, but couldn't get even general feedback why. Ideas for improvement? Sorry in advance for the long post. I've tried to organize it from most to least relevant. Had an on site for Sr. Software Engineer in Alexa group. The recruiter informed me that it was "very close" and they "really enjoyed talking to me" and they would contact me again in the future, but probabl
- Google L3 vs Amazon L5 First of all, thank you all for creating such an awesome community! From the last few weeks, I have been spending more time on Blind than on any other social sites :) About me: I am currently pursuing MS CS in one of the top US universities and will be graduating soon. This summer I interned at Goo
- Were they even looking for answers? I recently had an on-site interview at Google and some of the rounds seem to have went well, while others not so well. I think the two rounds with female interviewers didn't go well and they asked me pretty open-ended questions : 1. Give an algorithm to find the vertex cover of an undirected graph.
- link Facebook E6 Interview: Part 2. The Phone Interview PART 2. THE PHONE INTERVIEW In the previous post, I talked about how I got into the “race”, which led to the phone screen. [PART 1] https://www.teamblind.com/post/Facebook-E6-Interview-Part-1-How-I-Started-The-Process-6qP0UajY I pushed for my phone screen immediately when I realized that there won
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