Hi, I have an onsite with Alexa team. Do they ask OOD questions or real system design questions on "system design" round? Anyone knows?
For virtual System Design interviews can I ask my Alexa to compute simple rote computations for me? For example, if I am estimating how many bits to use to represent epoch time in order to prepend some Primary Key ID with - in order to implicitly sort chronologically - can I ask Alexa: “Alexa, how...Read more
Apart from LPs and DS/Algo, they seem to have one round of System design. Any insights/help will be highly appreciated.
Does anyone know what kind of system design questions are asked for amazon devices team ? I'm guessing it will be device related but there aren't too many examples online. Any help will be appreciated...
Expecting an offer from alexa team in sunnyvale any clue on what to expect and how to negotiate for a better offer. Current TC:- 130k
Hi I am in middle of giving interview for AWS EFS team (as a SDM) and a manger from Alexa MLops team has reached out to me asking to come to his / her team instead. Trying to reach out to someone on these two teams to get more insight into the team culture, if you work in any these teams please com...Read more
Fascinating read... https://stratechery.com/2017/amazons-operating-system/
I want to know which leetcode problems I need to focus on and which system design questions I need to primarily focus on. Please help! #tech #amazon #alexa #sde2
I’m on a team of ten people productionalizing NLP models in Alexa. Pretty clear to me that gpt-4 can replace our whole system. But we have like a year long roadmap. How am I supposed to even put on a straight face doing this work? Like we have massive systems, COEs, heavy oncall, and for what? Alexa...Read more
I have an onsite interview with Alexa team for sde2. Any insights on what kind of questions are asked for system design and object oriented design?
Is it worth making Alexa skills? Do people use Alexa for anything other than smart home system to turn on/off stuff or kitchen timers/alarm?
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...Read more
Got through amazon onsite recently for L5, onto team matching. Any thoughts on the following teams? I am interested in Infra / large scale systems, so leaning towards Alexa data infra. Pointers on WLB, culture, politics, projects would be helpful. - Ads API infra - Alexa shopping - Alexa data infra...Read more
Hi! I’ve got an upcoming interview, SDE 2, with the Alexa (probably Alexa Devices) team. I’m looking for last minute focus points before my scheduled interview (next week). Also would like to understand the degree of depth that’s expected in the SD rounds. Prep period: 1 month Prep items: LC - Top...Read more
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...Read more
Do Ring security systems (specifically the alarm system) purchased in the US work in India? Ring Alarm 14-piece kit (2nd Gen) – home security system with optional 24/7 professional monitoring – Works with Alexa https://a.co/d/2XOmTu5
I have cleared telephonic and initial coding round with Amazon. I have two options now. 1. go for SDE 3 role with one more round of telephonic which decides if I should go for SDE3 or SDE2. Team Core Alexa. 2. Go for SDE2 onsite directly with Amazon Search Customer Experience team. Any inputs are...Read more
Hi! What are the best alternatives to Alexa smart home? We control our outdoor/indoor cameras, doorbell, security system, HVAC, rooms with Alexa smart home app. But the app is so clunky and integration always keep dropping with smart devices. We have a mix of Alexa devices, google, and Yale. What...Read more
Any good distributed systems teams in Bay Area? I am not stuck to AWS, good Alexa or Music team is fine too. TC - 250K (L5)
I have Amazon Sde 2 interview coming in 9 days. My leetcode is fine and system design is okay. But I have not yet practise LLDs much. Can anyone suggest me some problems or resource I can go through for it. Any most frequent problems asked at Amazon? I know design parking system, LRU cache are asked...Read more