My wife completed her Amazon SDE internship today, hoping to get a full time offer, but that didn't happen. The performance feedback she received was really good, and her manager explained there are no open positions in their group right now so they can't immediately extend an offer. He said they'd try to request a position first to ultimately extend her an offer. How commonly does this happen? What are her chances, and is this assurance something worth clinging for? When do interns typically receive offers? Also, do other teams reach out if they have the budget?
After mentoring 3 interns at Amazon, not giving a full time offer because there are no openings in the team is new to me. Generally interns are given offers solely based on their performance. If the currently team doesn't have openings, they are placed in other teams. Maybe manager is just trying to look good but your wife didn't get as good reviews?
I see. That seems possible but unlikely. The manager did openly share the reviews written by him, the mentor and another peer. The reviews seemed really nice, if not stellar. He mentioned if the current team is unable to request a position for her, university recruiting would reach out to her for other positions. Again, how often this happens and how likely this is, no clue!
Are the interns placed in other teams BEFORE their last day, or can that take longer, after the internship is over?
Amazon hired too much and has been fumbling after lying to past interns about the ability to rejoin their intern team and what locations they can choose from. She's better off they seem like a mess right now.
Interns are usually extended an offer to join the company, not a specific team. They send out an exits survey at the end of internship asking for your preference (locations, different orgs and option to rejoin same team). Once you accept an offer, they assign teams based on this preference in a few months time. If a team doesn't have a headcount you get put on another team. At least that's what my experience has been as an intern and mentoring other inrtns when I rejoined. Im not sure if this has changed recently.
SDE1 is largely freezed across the board. I don't think we would be able to extend offers to interns if we are not really hiring that much. Your story aligns with the current account, so I don't think they are lying.
Itβs not always necessary that it leads to offer