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Amazon Merger
- IPOF merging with Rivian? Can we discuss this merger here? Looks solid to me as Rivian is backed by Amazon. It is rumored that Chamath will be taking this company public soon.
- link When will Amazon buy Twitter https://www.recode.net/2017/9/30/16012450/amazon-twitter-acquisition-merger-advertising-jeff-bezos
- Jim Cramer - interesting analysis Jim Cramer says Microsoft, Wal-Mart and Costco should merge to become a viable threat to Amazon. I like the idea! Thoughts and open discussion
- I was asked 2 LC hard in Amazon onsite last week, I thought Amazon hiring bar was relatively lower. I interviewed at Amazon Music last week and was asked 2 leetcode hard during onsite. 1. Merge K sorted lists 2. Word Ladder II Also, this happened after 20 mins of behavioral questions on LP, so you're supposed to solve LC hard within 30 mins, 10 mins, in the end, to ask the questions to the inter
- AWS Finance Got an interview request from AWS Finance team. Doesn’t have a detailed jd, the placement depends on individuals interest. What the folks do over there? Does AWS Finance has Merger and acquisition functions fell under its tree? How much is the package for individual with a master degree and four y
- vote 401K advice I have a good chunk of money in Vanguard from my previous job in one of there target funds that has been doing ~ 15% YOY. I now work for Amazon and have my 401K in fidelity which is also invested in the same Vanguard Fund. Question: does it make sense to roll over my previous company 401K to an IRA
- Is this Broadcom offer shit? Actively applying. There is a offer from the Broadcom team in Austin handling the DSP for their serdes IP. There is another interview I’m trying to wrap right now with Amazon on Project Kuiper (I’m interviewing for both teams in Seattle and San Diego for RF systems engineer, but I’d pick San Diego r
- Amazon OA question complilation Here's a compilation of all the 2020/2021 Amazon OA questions. Enjoy! Number of Islands: https://leetcode.com/problems/number-of-islands/ Turnstile: https://algo.monster/problems/turnstile Top K Frequently Mentioned Keywords: https://algo.monster/problems/top_k_frequently_mentioned_keywords Substri
- 4th Telecom Carrier Amazon? Keep reading that the gov wants T-mobile and Spring to create a 4th carrier before they merge? Does this even make sense? Can the government ask of something like this? Also heard probably a BS rumor that this is going to be Amazon? Is this true? LOL that would be funny tho AT&T, 'new' T-Mobile, Ver
- Why is amazon such a shitty company? I have worked in companies like cisco, microsoft and now in amazon , it has been almost one year i have been working here, i am already frustrated and on my way to leave this shit, The main difference that i found in amazon and my previous companies is 1. Mentorship: In amazon mentor is just for a
- vote Will Google acquire VMWare? VMWare is doubling down on kubernetes, and Google is the leader but is struggling to gain cloud marketshare. As adoption of k8s increases, will Google consolidate its cloud with VMWare to be a strong competitor to the AWS/Azure dominance? Think ATT, Verizon, with Tmobile and Sprint attempting to mer
- Got my H1B Transfer Approved today! Here is a story. I was working with a startup and I was days away from getting my i140. One of my managers who hated me took the advantage of a recent merger, and I was let go. I joined my previous role back but my visa transfer got an RFE. This is despite the fact that I was working for the same c
- why does amazon work on mainline instead of creating branches? how do people working on multiple features work on their items parallely? why is amazon promoting such technical path? why not branching and merging??
- What if Spiderman worked for Amazon? He would be called PIPer Parker. Before putting someone in PIP he will say "I'm gonna put some dirt in your eye." If his team member apologizes for a mistake, he will just say "Want forgiveness? Get Religion" When an intern in his team can't keep up with the fast paced environment he will say "Lo
- What do you think of tech managers who don't know how to use their computer? I recently had the opportunity to meet with a senior tech director from Amazon/Oracle who did not know how to use his computer. He did not know how to open new tab, new window, merge multiple in one folder, he was not familiar with any of the keyboard shortcuts, and he would very painfully navig
- Prepping for SDE interview. Need advice on what's high priority due to interest of time. Hello, I don't have a comp sci background. I am currently in a dev role at Amazon. Title is Systems Development Engineer. I have interviews soon for Microsoft, Facebook, Oracle and Google and I really need to reprioritize what to prepare for them. For 2020 interviewers out there, which data struct
- Let's talk : Snowflake vs Redshift Let's talk. In my. Opinion redshift will ace snowflake with sheer resources Aws has. If Amazon acquires snowflake and merges the optimizer with redshift, boom no competition. What do you guys think? #snowflake #redshift #aws
- vote 0.2x engineer 400k 2 yoe I'm a 0.2x engineer (1/5 the output compared to a 1x engineer). Interviewed recently and 2x TC to apple. However, I think manager wants to pip me soon. Accidentally messed up (caused issue similar to deleting a prod DB with no backup). Coworkers are noticing my trash code and code getting merged at
- Time bomb interviews Hi Blinders, It’s been a month in my job search and so far nothing turned out. It’s frustrating and nerve-wracking. I got to get something going before May 31 inside Intel or else GTFO and be on 60 day grace period in H1B. Here are my interviews with the companies. 1.Facebook - coding round 1 probl
- From Devips to Infastructure There has recently been a reorg in my company and I have been moved from DevOps to Infrastructure. I have ONLY been working on cloud so this is a huge switch to work on prem. I expressed my concerns to my manager who says that they wanted at least a set of younger members to learn data center stuff
- Wait it out for VP role vs. AWS Advisory Consultant Currently senior director in Technology org reporting in to CIO with circa 20 years’ experience primarily in technology consulting. Have been at J.D. Power 3 years with base salary of 215k and 25% annual bonus. Was on track for promotion to VP until former CIO was let go following acqusition and me
- Screwing telephonic interviews.Am I too much underprepared for FANG? I have been actively giving interviews for last 1 month but fucking up telephonic (70percent) round even after solving and revising 200+ LC questions. But not losing confidence at all. Am I underprepared for Google/Netflix/Apple/ Facebook. My deadline for switching is October end. Below is my fuc
- vote Chewy offer evaluation Title: Software Engineer II Location: Seattle Base: 150K Sign on: 20K/2 year (So 10K a year) RSUs: New hire + something they call merging + annual grant = 90K/year TC: 250K Yoe: Approx 5.5 years in US levels.fyi only has this data point: https://www.levels.fyi/offer.html?id=36f3df07-01ef-5d3f-9e35
- vote Passing Google HC or not? Had interviews with google for L5 SWE 4 rounds went good but 1coding went bad :( Design was v.good-literally talked through SSTables how they sort and merge and partitioning would happen and was driving the convo throughout. At some point interviewer said - oh I didnt know that I would read about t
- Day One Careers is looking for Amazon Interview coaches Hey Blinders, Evgeny from Day One Careers here. We are an Amazon interview preparation community who have successfully helped candidates land L4-L8 jobs at Amazon. We have recently merged with Amazon Interview Whizz academy and are now looking for interview coaches (current Amazonians) who are pass
- vote Amazon engineers, how often do you want to scream? https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/no44cb/an_amazon_driver_having_a_really_really_bad_day I work in a startup founded by ex-Amazonian managers, who would praise Amazon attitude towards getting shit done, mention leadership principles and criticize Google culture at every opportunity.
- cto to vp of engineering Was brought in as founding tech member to take an idea and build it. Founders were convinced the idea was a hit because of 2 existing brick and mortar businesses in the space and the idea being what was missing in the space. Decision was to not include 2 existing businesses in the new venture becaus
- link I made it!! From 85k to 350k TC in less than 2 years EDIT1: looks like this post blew up!! Thanks everyone!! I promise I will reply to all of the DMs/comments later tonight! EDIT2: I replied to all of the DMs, but won't be able to reply to any more DMs/comments. It's too much for me to keep up! However, as I mentioned in most of my replies, I am givi
- Amazon L6 SDE Interview Experience Hi, I wanted to share my L6 SDE interview experience as I couldn't find any before attending mine. (mostly non-SDE experiences here) I had a total of 5 interviews over 2 days (virtual onsite) and before that 2 phone interviews. Phone Interviews ============= 2 phone interviews were mostly behavio
- Handling a new grad with too many questions I'm a recent grad myself, and I've been an SDE-1 at Amazon for around 8 months now, at my first real job. I've done a fair share of question asking myself, but I always try to do my own research first and try to learn from how my more experienced teammates tackle problems. Another SDE-1 joined my t
- Google L6 PM Offer Eval? Hi blinders, heard a lot about Google using their brand to low ball candidates. Need some info on what people think about this offer. Already checked levels.fyi, but looking to get more recent data, especially since Google merged the L7/L7.5 YOE: 15 in Product Current TC: 390K + Options (non FAANG)
- My mentor is ass (and so is amazon?) Here is yet another post bashing amazon- I’m currently interning at amazon, and it has been the worst internship experience by far. I have had 4 other swe internships and I’ve never experienced anything like this. My spring internship previously was at another FAANG and the contrast is remarkable.
- link Diary of a Bay Area tech worker, Part 2 Wednesday, 9:30am Head off for work. As you get into your car, you realize the window that was replaced yesterday is way cleaner than the others. You contemplate getting a car wash, but we’re in a drought so you feel too guilty to go through with it. Wednesday, 10:12am Traffic was light. Right as y
- New coworker screwed up the codebase... A recent senior hire has screwed up the code base that I view as my baby...I basically introduced a new framework. Another developer (friend) and I built out the framework and we set our own standards and conventions to do things. We have proof of concepts currently in production and we have demonst
- I don't think you can learn anything at Amazon... I am reflecting on my work at Amazon. I can see that my peers and I have contributed a lot of code, but we never had legit senior SDE 3s to learn from or to guide us. Most of our work is geared towards making customers happy and doing crazy amount of processes instead of following proper engineering
- link AWS Solution Architect interview questions & concepts Please add questions as you see fit. Good luck! #amazon #aws #sa #interview Security IDS encryption at rest/in transit symmetric and asymmetric encryption. Web Application Firewall Vs Firewall? Where are customer encryption keys stored How would you mitigate a DOS? What is identity management? St
- amazon pip because of maternity leave I am very worried for a friend. She is an L6 and was working in a group that got merged into Business Development. She had to spend a few months to onboard obviously and will then go on leave for 5-6 months or whatever it is and come back with a month before reviews. Her manager told her that they
- vote Amazon newgrad recounts his (long) backstory. Is this the typical Amazon experience? Taken from Reddit: " I graduated from my state university and got a job at a local insurance company as a developer. Then, within 3 or 4 months of joining.. I got a linkedin message from an Amazon recruiter. I actually asked him if he meant to message me. I simply couldn't believe it. We chatted a
- Shitty Amazon culture affects high performers too There are lots of shitty humans in Amazon that we all already know of. I wanted to bring a point that this PiP thing doesn’t only affect low performers but voids high performers too of what they deserve if they’re not careful or if they get to work with people who are ready with a knife to backstab
- link Grubhub has MASSIVE potential for a big payout DISCLAIMER: I AM NOT A GUIDE FOR HOW YOU CHOOSE TO INVEST OR THE CAREER DECISIONS YOU MAKE THIS PRESENTATION IS THE REASON I AM BULLISH: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c13f4c6e17ba3aca12b9686/t/618b3d9d89755c08ab3bc41d/1636515230864/Cat+Rock+Capital+Presentation+on+Just+Eat+Takeaway.com+1
- link Amazon announces end of Customer Obsession (Wall Street Journal) Today, Amazon.com (AMZN) announced the replacement of Customer Obsession with STEAM Obsession. Product teams across the international powerhouse rejoiced. "This will save me so much time!" Said one Principal PM. "I was never able to get customers to submit SIM requests in tim
- New Grad :: SRE at Intuit? So I recently got an offer for "Software Engineer in Site Reliability Engineering and Performance Team" at Intuit (TurboTax). Being a Software Developer till now (2 YOE) I was kinda concerned as to how big a step this would be, jumping into SRE? How difficult is it to get back to SDE work if 2-3 ye
- How Lyft’s Missteps Killed its Chances of Overtaking Uber Article: I If there were ever a time when Lyft had a chance to catch up with Uber, it was last year. A constant barrage of negative publicity, including a #deleteUber social media movement, offered Lyft a gift in terms of picking up business. But while Lyft made some gains, it still finished the ye
- Were you managed out of one company but succeeded greatly at another? In my previous job my manager mentioned in my 1:1s with him that my pay is greater than his. I didn’t take much notice of it. When I stared working with him I felt that he had a small racial bias against me. I worked hard and kept a cool head hoping that I will be able to establish trust and faith.
- link From ‘boomer’ companies to encroaching giants, Canada’s tech sector has a labour problem If you want to understand the biggest problem in Canadian tech right now, ask someone who jumped from a Canadian company to an American one how their life has changed. You’ll probably get one of two answers. One of them is about money. A Toronto-based engineer who spoke to The Globe and Mail recentl
- link Insights about tinder and online dating (long thread) About a year ago some friends scraped 70k pics on tinder and it was reported a few months later: https://bit.ly/2ZbFVwf They said their goal was to outdo the guy that did 40k and was reported in the news a few years ago. Anyways, not to be outdone, I decided to scrape millions and do 2 TB worth of
- link ‘ Build on your lot’ builders with cost+floor plans in bay area,ca. I searched but couldn’t find builders with floor plan catalog & approx cost. This was the only one- https://thomasjameshomesusa.com/northern-california/ Any recommendations? Thanks
- vote Stocks and US Elections #personalfinance #investments Has anyone noticed recent steady sell off? what do you think, what are the chances of stocks falling after upcoming US elections if trump wins or biden wins..
- vote What will happen if Prop 22 doesn’t pass? Title says it all. Mainly thinking from the Gig companies perspectives. Vote or comment #Prop22 #tech #california @postmates @caviar @grubhub
- Thoughts on this tiktok nuclear energy influence Her goal is to save nuclear plants and advocate for more nuclear energy using weird videos on tiktok. Thoughts ? https://twitter.com/isaboemeke/status/1319674446391619584