I just received word that I will be receiving an offer for a L4 Cloud Support Engineer - I role.
If I were interested in trying to switch into a SWE role, what all would I need to accomplish in order to transfer over? How many leetcode problems should I complete? What languages should I become proficient in?
Also, I understand that many on Blind look down on Support roles, but for my situation it would put me down a better career path than my current position.
Any thoughts on what my approach should be?
Non-coding Sys Admin background
YOE: ~2.5
TC: ~110k
Thanks in advance
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Some Tech questions mostly on networking
Culture fit questions (are you more like this or that)
Then normally a technical phone screening but my recruiter skipped that portion for me
Then a virtual loop interview. 4 interviews 2 behavioral 2 technical. Each one an hour long and you get an hour break in between the 2nd and 3rd interview.
They gave me a document filled with resources to brush up/learn and I watched most of them (took a long time to get through them)
I think the reason I got it was my practice on answering the Behavioral questions (knowing Amazons LPs and using STAR)
So medium leetcode questions, java is better as programming lang,
Also, contribute to open source.
Have some pet projects.
L4 -> L4 (SDE) is not a problem at least in amazon.
General SDE interviewing guides available online should be enough. Good luck πΈ