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- Coding dojo or other bootcamps Tech product manager here at Amazon. I want to up my systems design game and general knowledge of backend architecture/ process. I thought about taking time off to do a boot camp. I come from a math/science background and consider this something I can learn. What resources do you recommend? Is a boo
- Levels at Amazon Hi Amazon folks, I need your help! I'm currently a software dev at Yahoo. I recently got an offer from Amazon but they offered me the position SDE1. Is that normal? I'm a level 3 at Yahoo with a lot of responsibilities as well as involved in many architecture decisions for my team. The recruiter s
- AWS vs Oracle Cloud considering TC? Blind community, I am looking at two offers side by side. AWS - 575k TC Oracle - 750k TC Seems like Oracle stock is undervalued today so there might be some growth potential in the future. Not sure how much room there is for AMZN to grow. Obviously AWS is the leader in cloud but OCI might have
- L6 to L7 TPM at Amazon interview I’m interviewing for a Sr TPM role at Amazon - AWS. The recruiter let slip that with my experience, L7 is a possibility, and my loop includes all senior managers, probably at least a few L7 and the hiring manager is probably L7-L8. What can I do to increase my chances of an L7 offer? I have 20 yoe
- OCI vs AWS vs AZURE (Learning perspective)... I have simple question. If you have experience with OCI architecture and infrastructure, will you be able to work or support AWS and AZURE?. Let's flip the coin as well. How about if somebody knows AWS, will he/she be able to work on OCI?. I am asking because i want to know how marketable somebody w
- Serverless approach for building system for side projects So I am looking for cloud housing (PAAS) like Azure, AWS or Firebase, but most of them offer cheaper price for using serverless architecture like Azure Functions, Lambda or Firebase functions. Would that hurt my showcase to people due to lacking servers on backend or they don't care. Also any guide
- AWS Principal Security Transformation technical interview I’m prepping for a technical interview for this role, but the tech topics are so broad it’s difficult to figure out where to focus. Any ideas? AWS/Cloud Coding and Scripting Languages Crypto Security Development Identity Management Security Architecture and Frameworks Compliance and Threats (data ce
- Got an interview with Amazon for AWS Sr. Solution Architect position After answering a questionnaire about my previous experience, architectures I designed and my current project, I've got an invitation for a phone screening. I was told that the process is as follows: writing task (completed), quick phone screening (scheduled), 60 min phone interview and final inter
- Need referrals for sde2.. As the heading tells, looking for referrals in top companies for sde2 role. Looking for change in next 2-3 months. Good experience in developing and managing microservices architecture and having desent knowledge of system design. Yoe: 2.1 Current TC: 24lpa + $3000 worth esops/year Will prefer c
- starting an ecommerce site in Seattle if I wanted to build an ecommerce marketplace like Amazon, what would be the right architecture to start building it on? would you use an out of the box solution and start hacking it? a simple OOTB solution like Big commerce wouldn't work for me because I need to be able to heavily customize the UI
- Software Dev Manager at Amazon hey folks. im a Technical PM at Azure and have had decent trajectory. yoe -4 level 64. tc - 260k i have been approached for a dev mgr role at EC2. i was wondering what is expected of a dev manager at amazon? is it more of a tech lead role with focus on code reviews or is it more of architecture, s
- Amazon PM > TPM? I interviewed for an Amazon Sr TPM role (L6) and did well except for the technical round, so I'm being "recycled" with the option of doing one more phone screen to get an L5 or L6 Sr Program Manager offer, non-technical. I asked the recruiter if there was a path from that back to the technical track
- Am I underpaid? Been at Accenture for 6.5 years currently M2. Reading posts about people with significantly higher TCs especially in tech and considering a move to AWS or a series B startup in the product management or solutions architecture space (currently interviewing at both). Realistically what can I expect
- link Applying to Amazon NYC position What's a good Amazon position in nyc to apply to for a mid level person whose main experience is c++ and Linux? I'm not too familiar with amazon levels, but it would be like Facebook e5. I saw this one: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/688968/senior-software-development-engineer Looks okay, just so
- vote How technically skilled is your engineering manager? I posted this in my company’s channel, but I’m curious about the broader Blind user base. For software engineers: In your opinion, how technically skilled is your manager? Not skilled at all = knows nothing about programming, software, architecture, system design, trade-offs, databases, etc. Proba
- vote People who left Amazon- Is life better? Frustrated with dealing with multiple headcount crunched teams, politics, lack of good management, poor annual increments and the pathetic SDE 2 -> SDE 3 promotion process. Even if I get good work, the dependent teams or 'promotion oriented architecture' ensure that the project gets more complica
- Meta E4 - Competition for E5 I have been in the industry for almost 12 years. I wear a lot of hats before joining PwC. But have always stayed close to coding. I mean during development phase, I spend 80% of time coding. Since, I didn't have a badge to prove that I can be an E5 or E6 (or may be based on the examples I used duri
- Which is my reasonable level at Google/Amazon/Microsoft 10 YOE, 7 of them is Backend Software Development and last 3 was a Team Lead position. Charged in cloud architecture, great DDD practices, and high standards of code coverage. General Machine Learning, I'm excited about continuous development in AI. I've got an offer to L5 Amazon, but have a
- Need Advise: Database Developer Career Path Been a RDBMS Developer for over 12 years, with experience in application design/architecture and development. With so many new technologies around - What should be the logical next step for a Database Developer? AWS? Snowflake? Data Engineer? Or just stick to the same database till the end of days
- AWS L6 ( SA role) to GCP L6 CE or level 65 in MSFT Hi What is your input on moving from AWS at L6 after 4 years on solution architecture TC 180£. Got a offer from GCP at L6. 195£, customer engineering, and MSFT at level 65 on Azure, 210£, All outside US. Seems to me MSFT has lost the edge in terms of recruiting and future employers. What do you
- Looking for an entry level solutions architect position Hi I'm a cloud professional with about 2 years of industry experience who recently graduated from a top university in 2021. I have an associate level aws solutions architect certification and some limited experience with aws. I was wondering what resources I could use to land a job that would build
- Data Engineer interview prep I have interview with Amazon for data engineer in two weeks. I was interviewed for sde and they referred me to data engineer role. they wont interview me on data structures and algorithms for next round. Interviews would be on data engineering concepts like desiging etl workflows, understading db co
- What do I not understand about the AWS Solutions/Infrastructure Architect roles? Ive spent 10+ years as a sysadmin and the last 5 leading data center migrations and doing SaaS architecture design/working with Product teams and Engineering teams to roll out new hosted products. I also have Cerified Solutions Architect - Associate from AWS Did a first round phone interview with
- System Design Opportunities How often are you given opportunies to design systems or make architectural decisions? Is it common to have more senior engineers create designs and hand them off once they have been reviewed by leadership? How would you handle a situation in which an engineer much more junior than you creates a de
- Referral - Looking to do more Looking for a #referral or #jobopening. YOE: 4 years Currently a TT L5 SysDE in VA with L6 well underway, but I feel I can do more. Previous experience in DevOps and Systems Eng. Strengths: Python Linux Distributed Systems Parallel Processing Micro-Service Architectures Algorithms & Data Structu
- Actively Interviewing - Referrals Hi Recruiters, Developers and Managers I recently started actively interviewing and looking for referrals at Google, Facebook, Apple, Stripe, Square, Salesforce, Tableau etc around Seattle area. Please reach out if your team has an opening and looking for an engineer. Experience: Amazon and Microso
- Hiring Application Security/ Product Security engineers My team in Amazon is hiring for multiple Product Security/AppSec engineers in the payments space. We are building new secure platforms and require engineers with a strong background in security architecture, application security, cryptography, etc. The roles have cross-org impact and high visibilit
- Looking for Referrals Hi all I recently started actively interviewing and looking for referrals at Google, Facebook, Apple, Stripe, Square, Salesforce, Tableau etc around Seattle area. Please reach out if your team has an opening and looking for an engineer. Experience: Amazon and Microsoft. ~ 5yrs Microservices, NoSql
- Amazon Onsite SDE2 vs SDE1 I'm about to schedule an onsite and after hearing that I haven't been heavily involved in system design at my current role the recruiter seemed to really be pressing me to interview for SDE1. I understand the architecture of my team's product pretty well it was just mature by the time I joined. I've
- Amazon SDM Interview How technically deep do the SDM interviews go? For e.g. for behaviral questions, will the interviewers go deep into understanding the reasons a particular tech decision was made or low-level undersanding of the Architecture? For System design, are the questions more like design Instagram news feed o
- vote Amazon - Network Development Engineer Review????? Hi, Few questions : Which are the BEST teams in Amazon to join as Network Development Engineer in terms of quality work, learning, growth. I mean Network deployment team, Architecture team, automation team, capacity team, etc???? Which Network teams to totally avoid joining? Example Network Oper
- Technical round for director level at Amazon Asking for a friend who is not on blind He is interviewing for a director (L8) at Amazon. He cleared the phone screen with HM. Now the HM said that there will be a Technical/ Architecture round next. Does anyone know what sort of questions will be asked? How to prepare for this? Any books or resour
- Amazon best code quality approach, then Google and Facebook * google - codebase is essentially rewritten every few years, engineers spend most time on reviews, architecture is over-engineered, missing deadlines by a few quarters is normal. code reviews have to pass an additional readability review by someone "certified" in a given programming language. * am
- Seeking referral Trying to leave a toxic work environment. Looking for an opportunity for technical and team leas growth. Preferably hybrid, cool with remote/in office. Current TC: $117 2 years of experience all over the stack: - distributed systems (micro-front ends) - JS / TS / React / HTML / CSS - web accessib
- Amazon SDM Systems Design Interview Hi everyone, I am scheduled for the “on site” interview with Amazon in 2 weeks. One of the interviews is going to be about systems design. I’m curious what kind of questions Amazon is most likely to ask and what the bar is for SDM candidates. Like do we need to go really in depth on the design cho
- Hiring Sr SDE to lead AWS Service growing exponentially I am hiring Sr SDE to lead service engineering and infrastructure engineering teams for an AWS service undergoing an exponential growth. It is a senior role with executive level visibiilty and tremendous growth opportunities. You will be THE technical face of an AWS service, define the next generat
- How much code does L6 level engineers write? Wondering how much code does L6 level engineer at amazon/Google or L65 SDE at Microsoft writes. Is their work mostly related to system designing and defining code architecture or are they involved in bug fixes and feature implementation as well? I received a call from Google HR today. She was looki
- [India] Is this SDE Payroll Team ? Amazon I recently got an offer for L4 I have accepted the offer I am currently in process of a background check and haven't received the offer letter yet I still don't know which team I would be shifted in but the jobs portal is showing status under consideration The description of that job is something
- AWS Proserve Cloud Application Architect #PROSERVE # AWS Couple of questions to get feedback from fellow friends. 1. When Proserve gets engaged, is it mostly code development for customers OR building POC/spikes/Architectural diagrams for customers? I believe this could be a mix, but would like to know what's the most common type of enga
- Resources for learning how to build SaaS products on AWS I am learning how to build SaaS products on public clouds. A couple of books I am reading right now: Data intensive applications Building Microservices. These books teach you software architecture and design principles. I am looking for material (videos/books) that show you an example of building/l
- Switch from SWE to Solution Architect This is going to be a somewhat open post about Solution Architecture, mainly for AWS and Google Cloud. 12 YoE currently holding a position compared to Sr Staff. Lately I’ve been toying with the idea of switching to some Solution Architect role at AWS or GCP. I’m tired of the daily office politics a
- Shifting from SOA Software Engineer to Distributed Systems Engineer I am a generic software engineer right now and work on writing backend services, calling them from the front end and adding some monitoring and metrics to the service. Service Oriented Architecture in short. The services I contribute to already serve millions of customers. But all that is handled
- Interview info sharing limitations Hey folks, I am in the process of interviewing for external companies. I've never interviewed for a company outside of Amazon and Amazon is the only place I've worked at so far. I had to sign blanket NDA at the time of joining. So, legally, I'm not allowed to discuss any of my work at Amazon. As par
- Referrals needed for Engineering Manager roles in India (preferably Bangalore) Hello Blinders 😊 I am a software engineering manager based out of India having 13+ years (8 years of core development in JVM languages Scala and Java and the AWS cloud as well as bare metal and 5 years managerial) experience scouting for potential opportunities in top product development firms. It
- Principal PMT Amazon - Tech Screen Tips? Hey Folks, Have a Principal PMT loop going on with Amazon (Seattle) and my next phone screen is with a Principal SDE (highly experienced gentleman). I have previously gone through tech screns (I am a developer myself) and they have been basic system design/architecture questions. But this is an L7
- AWS SA in NY (L6). TC of $250. Where can I make more doing something similar? Amazon is a great company to work for but I know I can make more. I used to be a full time software engineer but I don't want to go back to that - too much time has passed and I really enjoy talking to decision makers and architecting rather than being only hands-on and head down. So where can I go
- Transition from oil & gas to big tech (energy) Anyone here was able to transition from oil and gas to energy section of companies like amazon, microsoft or google? Not trying to get into hard core technical positions but a manager kind of position which works between tech and energy company? Few days ago I saw a LinkedIn post from someone who
- SDE --> Solution Architect conversion Hi there, Being SDE for many years, I am thinking about various options for further life. One of the options I am thinking about is to convert to SA. I know there are different SA's and I think coming to clients and build them a comprehensive architecture + prototype for their needs is what I want
- Amazon L7 PMT role My friend, who has built ML products, is interviewing for L7 PMT role in AWS ML. He wants to know 1. If the loop of L7 PMT has PMT interviewers only or loop has engineers and data scientists too 2. To what depth he will be asked about architecture/technical details of his products I'm a L6 non tec
- What's the TC guesstimate for an AWS TAM in the northeast? And what's WLB like? I sort of want amazon on my resume for the resume points and I sort of don't want to travel anymore. I have 4 years of Cloud Architecture for large companies plus many years of general devops and computer experience. Should I go for the TAM role or try for a Solutions Architect? What's the travel a