Google, linkedin, amazon, microsoft, uber, airbnb, bloomberg, FB, netflix, square, quora, apple, Dropbox.
In terms of difficultly of questions with the companies I’ve interviewed with, from least to most difficult: Bloomberg=Amazon < Apple < Facebook = Uber < Google Google was only slightly more difficult than Fb and Uber. They only asked leetcode and no behavioral or system design at all so I think their bar is lower in a way, but maybe their internal data proves otherwise.
Are you sure you weren’t being under leveled at google? That’s pretty common, you’ll get an L4 interview while fb gives E5 interview so of course it’s easier
I’m sure Google was for L4 and Facebook was for E4. I didn’t have enough YOE for E5. Google doesn’t do system design for L4 candidates. It was just leetcode question after leetcode question.
Amongst the places I’ve interviewed Google > Facebook > LinkedIn = Apple = Uber > Microsoft > Amazon Algorithmically, Google was slightly harder than the rest. Facebook, Uber and Apple has similar level of questions. Microsoft and Amazon were easier. The difference was, Facebook gave a lot of weightage and was stricter for system design evaluation and you had to write perfect code. Apple had a lot of design rounds compared to others so the process felt exhausting. Uber felt like you could do average or bomb a part of the interview and you could still get through. That way the evaluation bar felt a little low compared to others. Microsoft and Amazon aren’t hard to get into if you do some leetcode as they don’t ask super hard or exciting new questions. It’s mostly a rehash of some well known questions.
If Amazon has such a low hiring bar how comes it is a successful FANG company? Does Google and others alike really need to keep the bar so high? If they lowered the bar they would find engineers much easier (and cheaper too). Am I missing something?
I actually agree with you. At Google, we have superstar engineers doing pretty boring things bc there's no one else to do them. At Amazon, they let in whoever applies so can get a lot more done in terms of scope.
Hiring bar doesn’t necessarily translate to business success. Also, Amazon imho has a strong engineering culture inside of the company. I’ve seen a lot of strong sde2 and sde3 from Amazon as compared to Microsoft.
Amazon has to fire more because they have a higher false positive rate
I didn't find Amazon's interview process to be drastically different than Google/FBs, in some ways it was harder. May vary by team I suppose
Don’t go to Bloomberg if you are a good sde. If you are interested in finance some places that are better include Two Sigma, Citadel, Goldman, Addepar. You also may find it hard to grow at Bloomberg because most of the people there are mediocre sdes.
Also DE Shaw and RenTech.
Every good engineer at Bloomberg leaves within a couple years for a hedge fund or a tech firm (Banks get the slightly above average ones)
From where I’ve interviewed as an intern: Microsoft < Bloomberg < Google = Facebook < Airbnb < Dropbox
Dropbox > google>FB>AMZN. Some star ups were there alongside these as well.
Dropbox has a higher bar than google?
This could be a poll.