Hiring SDEs in Seattle
Hi all, I’m building a new product at Amazon in the Retail business. This specific area of Retail is being heavily invested in over the next 3-5 years. I am looking to hire about 20 SDEs of various levels and few front-end engineers. If you want to build a massively scalable product from ground up for an exciting business, please message me. Senior leadership of this team believes in work life balance and importance of a good culture so rest assured you won’t be working crazy hours or dealing with insane politics. Thanks
Which location is this?
Seattle
Lol. Folks, please stay away from retail. PS: ex-Amazonian here.
Why?
1. Toxic org. 2. Sub-par SDEs 3. Hiring and promo bar is a joke. 4. Too much operational load. 5. Too many legacy services. (Even if you're building something new you have to integrate with platform teams. They have too much legacy shit and not to mention away teams) 6. Away team model 7. Your Thanksgiving and December is basically screwed. Come to Google instead. Msg me. Everything including pay will be better.
Are you hiring any recent college graduates ? 2 years of industry experience and MS CS from USC May 2019
No. UCLA only. Sorry.
Yes, I am. PM me.
Is the ops load low cause it’s a new product? Any chance of being able to go from sde1 to sde2 in a year. Current team has my on track to be promoted by end of this year
It will never be low. Your dependencies will still be legacy and shit. They screw up, it will impact you.
Ya I feel you but not like they screw up everyday. And I don’t mind sev2s when it’s someone else’s fault and I don’t have to do anything
Will you hire someone in Vancouver and pay well?
This role is in Seattle. If you are willing to relocate, then please PM me. Of course, we will pay well and competitively.
Before I Pm you, I had an Amazon assessment last November and I got rejected, can I apply for your opening now? Thanks
It really depends on how you did on the assessment. PM me and I can lookup the details.
@OP: You proved that you are not a good salesman. No one will believe that Amazon leadership believes in WLB. If there exists such a team in Amazon internal candidates will find you. You don't have to post in blind to find candidates.
No horse in this race but that inference is ridiculous. Hiring in tech is hard, so in fact everyone needs to post on blind but most don’t
When you are trying to build a team of 20 engineers, you have to use all channels to get candidates. It would be foolish and super slow if you just relied on internal word of mouth. Believe me there are many many teams where engineers have WLB and they work 40-45 hours a week and hardly any weekends.
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Is this going to be about writing some blahh services that call a bunch of other blahh services? Or are we talking about doing something really innovative? Crazy hours are fine with me; BS politics and dealing with crufty platforms are not.
This is absolutely not about integrating with a bunch of other services. This is creating a truly innovative product from ground up. PM me and I can give you more details.
How is the promo path for L4 to L5?
Good question. I have seen it take an average of about 2 years to get from L4 to L5. For this level, it obviously depends on the person’s technical coding and design skills. I believe it is manager’s responsibility to have a career plan for each of their employees and get them to the next level.
I joined amazon on L4 with couple years of industry experience and I don’t see myself getting promoted soon ( already 2 L4’s on promo track )