Applied for a Senior role at Amazon. Got a response from the recruiter on it to schedule next steps. But just got off the phone with another recruiter for Amazon for a different role and they wanted to put me at SDE 2 because my architecture experience didn’t match the scale they were looking for. Is this sort of recruiter / team dependant? What should I expect from the SDE 3 interview, should I make the architecture sound bigger?
What is your level at Flexport?
Sde 2 - deliver on important projects and architect a component Sde 3 - make sure others deliver on important projects by architecting the product and identifying gaps between components. If your experiences align more with component architecture, you will be downleveled into sde2, so make sure you're capturing the bigger picture of your projects
Sde2: Gets shit done Sde3: Makes sure what gets done is not stupid. Also sometimes gets a lot of shit done very quickly.
Well, that seems more like what I would expect. The recruiter I spoke too made it sound like SDE3 was more of a principal role.
Top tier sde3 is closer to principle at other faang but the band is very wide.