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- Amazon Video conference interview? Amazon has asked for a ‘video conference’ interview instead of onsite interview. I’m very skeptical of the effectiveness of this. How does this work? Do you have any experience? Any suggestions?
- Amazon Policy - Open source, conferences.. Is it allowed at Amazon to contribute to things like talks, open source projects...etc freely? Is it crazy like Apple? It’s tricky while working at Apple. TC: 180K YOE: 6
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- PhD SWE & staying in touch with research For any SWEs with PhDs, I'm curious how easy it is to stay involved in research after you graduate. I'm feeling kind of bummed about leaving the research world soon. Do you have the time and/or energy to keep reading new papers? If you work on more engineering vs. R&D, would they let you join a rea
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- Only one coding question in Amazon Interview I just had an interview at Amazon. Really enjoyed meeting everyone and I’m interested in the team. I was really surprised that I only had one brief coding question in five interviews. It was a video conference interview where I wrote some code on a MacBook (never used one so it was awkward and th
- Write a blog and give talk. Ask amazon?? I would like to a write a tech blog about ML and deep learning and give talks at conferences? Do I have to ask Amazon before I do this?? FYI: I am on a F1 OPT work visa as well but I don’t intend to make money out of this. Just free. Purpose is to build my brand. Thoughts on doing this? People yo
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- Format of a phone interview Passed the OA and about to take a phone interview with Amazon next week. I have been searching for how a phone interview process is like, but so far all I have found is about solving phone interview questions, instead of explaining the process of the interview. Is it literally a phone call like the
- Amazon rejection after onsite interview with tentative down level offer I need help figuring out the feedback I got from an Amazon recruiter after onsite loop. He told me the interview panel enjoyed talking to me but they determined I would not be a good for a finance manager role. He then told me, there are opened Senior Financial Analyst roles that he can place me int
- Amazon India 6 month intern team match (posting for my brother) My brother (final year undergrad) has a 6 month intern offer at Amazon India. Looking for team match (managers, please feel free to DM/comment and I can DM) or team names with good future prospects/growth. Domain is open ended but slightly biased towards Data Science/ML/AI
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- Looking for Salesforce Referral, Prev. Amazon SDE Intern I’d really appreciate a referral to Salesforce, COVID recruiting had been pretty tough and Salesforce is one of my dream companies so I’d really appreciate the opportunity. I have a return SDE intern offer to Amazon, a publication at a top conference on improving ML classifiers, launched an MVP bac
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- Applied Scientist Intern Return Offers Hi , Im a second year Masters student from a Top CS school specialising In ML and AI I interned at Amazon as Applied Scientist and got a return offer. However they told me that they will tell me the comp two weeks before I’m ready to decide . Can someone tell me the ball-park range of Comp i can ex
- Negotiation for Amazon L4 SDE (Bay Area) Hello everyone, I have an offer from Amazon SDE1 in BayArea, and was asked for "what im looking for" in TC. - 1.5 year YOE in SWE - 1 YOE in PM role (before I was SWE) - CS Masters (undergrad was in Electrical Engineering) I currently have two other offers at startups: - 130 base + 180k (net pro
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