I was sde in aws, moved to gcp. Will answer questions that don’t reveal identity. Moved from sde2 to L4. Same level, similar comp. TC: base 160k, stocks 550k, signon. 50k Yoe: 5.5 all in amazon Edit: One of the big difference I noticed is people in Google are very smart and humble, and it’s exactly opposite of Amazon.
What did u like about amazon.
fast moving, more ownership even at junior levels, lot of opportunities to grow into management.
Have a phone interview next Monday for GCP team. Any advice?
expect 1-2 coding problems, no behavioral questions
sort leetcode questions by frequency and work on them as much as possible.
Yoe ?
updated
How many years of industry experience do you have? I heard that Google only gives L3 position to many SDE2 in Amazon
updated. Amazon promo bar for sde2 internally is a joke, it’s still good for external hires. Same with sde3 bar for many recent promotions. So, it’s not surprising why many people will get down leveled.
Why did u leave.
Been in Amazon for a while, and lot of good talent already moving out to fb, google. The reason people are staying is because of stock growth. Also, it has become too much political with many teams doing busy work. Amazon is now pretty chill in terms if work, lot of people are resting and vesting.
How’s the infra quality for GCP? How’s the on-site ops overhead compared with AWS? What makes a good engineer in your org?
infra quality at Google is top-notch, it is basically built on top of existing internal infra which supports Google products. Ops is usually handled by sres, so there is no dev oncall. For being considered a good engineer, imho, google over-indexes on the project quality more than the project delivery. This was a big difference from Amazon. This also means that engineering practices here are much better. A good engineer would use best engineering practices and design a long term solution, which not only solves the problem at hand, but also thinks about other problems that can be solved. Apart from that, it is similar to other places, like you have to earn trust of other people, show ownership, so on..
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