(Yet another Amazonian testing waters before 4 year anniversary)
I’m L5 SDE at amazon with experience in 2 key AWS services. Joined as SDE 1 and got promoted later. Currently I’ve started working on my L6 promo doc and expect it to go through next year.
I’m looking for a switch now hopefully to a place with better comp. and WLB. Through some research on Blind it seems like Amazon L5 -> Google L5 has mixed reviews leaning towards “not possible”. On the other hand, I fit job description for L5 position on google’s career page.
What do other blinders think? Am I naive to go by the job description? Does Google always tend to down level? Or does it depend on the interviews? #tech #google #amazon #googleamazon #career
Any help will be appreciated, both w.r.t. expectations and prep.
YOE: 6.5 years(4.5 industry + 2 of Master’s)
TC: 243k
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First off, your YOE is 4.5 not 6.5.
In summary, away from the typical Amazonian image.
For the googliness interview I've sat through and given enough interviews at Amazon that I can tell good behavioral interviewees from the bad ones, so I just had to be a good one. My prep was spending a whole 15 minutes the night before the interview thinking of a few projects I've worked on that demonstrate leading a project through ambiguity to delivery, resolving manager/teammate/other team disagreements to lead to a positive outcome, and leading a project to increase operational resilience/reduce operational load.
The other big interview is system design, so I spent six weeks spending most of my free time studying the standard fare: Grokking, DDIA (great info but mostly overkill), Xu, and lots of YouTube system design videos.