Hi, I have an upcoming interview for Amazon Alexa AI SDE II, location undetermined, possibly full time remote. Any tips for interviews for this team or Amazon in general? Recruiter interview is this week. When he asks about salary how do I respond? I'm just assuming it will come up. Thank You!
Ask for maximum cash. Stock vesting is 5/15/40/40 and at least half of employees leave in less than 1.5 years. Search on blind. It is possible and approvable to get 160K base salary, and 200K sign on split over two years.
Can you explain in more depth how the stock vesting works? Also are you saying they give you a $200k sign on bonus (just given over a 2 year span)? Why do people leave so fast? Better opportunities elsewhere?
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Practice leetcode. Also for the leadership questions make sure you answer with the star answer format. It's surprising how people can answer so badly on the kind of gimme questions. As far as salary Amazon's pay levels are fairly well known so feel free to ask for max but know you aren't going to make more than the max for sde2 unless your interview is incredible and you get pegged for sde3.
This will be a far jump in salary for me so just felt odd since this is the first time I'm asking for a number this high. Levels fyi puts it at 225k so I guess just say a number around there?