Currently living in Seattle and world like to stay here.
Interviewing with a bunch of companies located here (google, uber, Lyft etc.)
Should I interview with Amazon as well ?
From what I heard:
I. Amazon interview is behavioral heavy these days, which is pretty boring, you can’t even use it as a good mock interview
2. Vesting schedule is bad: 5, 15, 40, 40. So you get peanuts if you leave before 3 years
3. Culture and work life balance is not that great
PS: no offense Amazon folks, those are the things I heard and I am looking for your suggestions
Level at FB: E5
TC: 340k
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Also WTF is wrong with people on Blind these days? How come nobody told OP to TC or GTFO? Kids these days, spoiling Blind for us old timers.
Obligatory TC or GTFO OP.
Culture depends on team. Theres many good ones.
I say fuck it why not. Maybe try for principal/sde3. The PE role makes you the lead for a ~100 engineer organization.
From all the people I have talked to, from other companies these are things I think you can only get at AWS:
1. Great talent in some deep technical areas (database, Ec2, storage)
2 You will see first time what customer obsession means and how that plays out in decision making at higher levels in Amazon. It’s unlike anything u will see at other places
3. Be part of some PR/faq process and u will be delighted and how company prioritizes what to work on
4. The rate and ease with which AWS can just spin up a new service and new region is amazing ... it’s reached a state where very difficult to achieve things at scale are just easy.
5. Finally, you will see why there is tech debt and why it’s not all bad.
Some of the things you posted, I have already experienced at FB, guess time for a change 😀
I want an easy life for next 2 years at least, I am tired of the stress at FB