Tech IndustryNov 30, 2019
WeWorkDSKW11

AWS Elasticsearch onsite

Hi , I have upcoming onsite with AWS Elasticsearch team for sde2 role in Palo Alto. Can someone from the team or someone who attended their interview shed some light on their level of difficulty. Does leetcode medium suffice or do they ask hard questions as well and how about system design questions? Also, how is the team and wlb at Elasticsearch?

Amazon iA71wc Nov 30, 2019

Oh boy, be careful of this team. I can’t speak for team culture, but holy shit are these guys slammed with high severity tickets ALL the time. I genuinely feel bad for them. Anybody at Amazon who knows of them or works with them can attest

Khoros lHla77 Nov 30, 2019

Any clue about amplify?

Amazon iA71wc Nov 30, 2019

Haven’t heard much of or from them

Amazon tenseflows Nov 30, 2019

Avoid elasticsearch please, ask recruiter for a different org/team

WeWork DSKW11 OP Nov 30, 2019

Is it because of bad wlb? How is the work in general in Elasticsearch? Also, which teams in bay area do you suggest?

Amazon sjsjeiios Nov 30, 2019

Please runaway this service is an operational nightmare

Amazon sjsjeiios Nov 30, 2019

Check out this post! "Elasticsearch 160 Sev2 in 12 hours, 700 sev 2 s in a week. (Amazon)" https://us.teamblind.com/s/cehJR8bm

FactSet @itachi Nov 30, 2019

According to other posts, it is recommended to avoid that team

Google nYUs88 Nov 30, 2019

Bad org

Visa NewBabe Nov 30, 2019

People post pretty much same comments if anyone asks about any specific team in AWS.🙄

Amazon tenseflows Nov 30, 2019

Not really. People don't say the same for EC2, S3 or many other teams

Amazon OTdS88 Nov 30, 2019

Elasticsearch is well known internally as an operational dumpster fire. Same with Route53 and IOT

Pure Storage xCUF60 Jul 13, 2020

Yo dskw11 any update? Did you get an offer?