AWS interview process
I’ve been getting a lot of requests from AWS recruiters, so I was thinking of interviewing. Haven’t decided to change jobs yet, just want to try out the interview. How does the interview process work at AWS? - Are you interviewed for a specific team? Or is there a general interview process and then you go through team matching? - I’ve heard a lot about bar raiser interviews. What exactly is it?
Why don’t u ask ur recruiter about that?
Why are you doing this to yourself? Stay away. Not worth it. You will hear a lot of negativity about amazon and its there for a reason. Don’t even interview here. For your question, interview depends on team specific sometimes or will be decided later for matching. Bar raiser is usually from someone who is not from your team if team specific interview or generally bar raiser interviewer who asks questions from LPs or sometimes coding if new grad. Not something very different from interviewee perspective but they have an equal say in your hiring.
Look at this Check out this post! "wasted years at Amazon (Tech Industry)" https://us.teamblind.com/s/rX3g7uFQ for reference as what I’m talking about
bar raisers have veto power, run the meeting where it's decided if you're hired, and must be from a different team from the bar raiser's, preferably from a completely different department. often they're from a different role, and they have usually done hundreds of interviews. except for new grads, there must be a bar raiser in a loop, or at least one in training. they're an invite-only group of corporate-koolaid addicts with huge power and usually think way too highly of themselves and get drunk on power.
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They tell you that you get to choose your team but for me I basically went to the interview and then got paired with some team. I didn't really care but don't fall for the meme that it's similar to Google where you search for your team.
there's a new program where you do get a couple of options but it's not used for all hiring, it's mostly for experienced industry hires and only in some regions
Some orgs also have first-dibs privileges. You may want to work for S3, but if Shopping Cart needs you, you get sent to Shopping Cart.
What happens if multiple teams want u, do you get multiple offers?
Run
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