Hello Blinders! I have used blind to prepare for interviews, offer negotiations, h1b related questions and many more things. It's time for me to give back. It might not be much different from other post but will share it anyways. I was laid off from Uber in May and as I was on H1B, I had only 3 months (1 month of transaction work at Uber) to land another job before getting kicked out of US. I started applying from the day 1. Few things I did to get calls. 1) Pinged many engineering managers/recruiters on LinkedIn who has "Actively Hiring" headlines. Many did not reply (if you are one of them, please just reply no if it is LinkedIn InMail so people can reuse those InMails), some replied that my profile doesn't match with what they are looking (really appreciate this) and few referred me to other hiring manager. Got 3 calls for interview from this. 2) Created list of companies I was interested in and reached out to friends from those companies to refer me. 3) Reached out to all recruiters who had reached out to me in the past. Many of them quickly replied. I never ignore recruiters email even when I am not looking for a change. I used to just reply that I am not looking for an opportunity right now and will reach out if anything changes. That might have helped. Though no data point to prove. Luckily I started leet code a week before lay off (thanks to Uber blind, most of us already know lay offs were happening). In first 2 days, I had set up interview calls with Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and Amazon. I also got calls from Roblox, TikTok, Cloudera, Pure Storage and few start ups. i won't go in details about interview experience for each companies as other blind posts have described very well. I started practicing with Amazon and Facebook most frequently asked questions. LEETCODE PREMIUM IS A MUST. I have done cracking the coding interview in past so didn't do it again but would recommend if one hasn't gone through it. I did around 100 questions before giving phone rounds and around 200 questions before giving on sites. Almost all phone calls had 2 LC questions.I think 2 LC questions is a new norm now. I got reject from Apple and Microsoft. Cleared FB phone interview but they stopped hiring for E4. Got onsite(virtual) for others. At this point, I was focusing more on Amazon. I had given one onsite for Amazon in the past and I knew they focus more on LP so started preparing for that as well. Wrote 2-3 stories per LP. Broke them in STAR pattern. This helped a lot not only for Amazon but other companies behavioral rounds. For system design, as many of the other posts have mentioned, I did grokking the system design, watched couple of Youtube videos, and system design primer (https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer). Unlike many, my Amazon interview experience was pretty smooth. Gave onsite on 8th. Got hiring decision on 10th. Verbal offer on 12th. I didn't have much on my hand to negotiate at that point so I just told recruiter what I was expecting. Recruited did his best (I think) and came up with final numbers on 16th. Accepted on the same day. I had other on-sites scheduled but cancelled them as I was already one month in and might not have enough time for transfer process. H1b Transfer: I had worked with Fragomen in the past for Uber's H1b transfer but it was really fast this time. Will just post the timeline. 17th June: Questionnaire from Fragomen; filled on the same day. 22nd June: LCA posting sent to employer for review and posting 23rd June: Confirmation of LCA posting received from employer 24th June: LCA submitted on DOL website 24th June: All docs required to process case received. 29th June: Draft forms with changes/approval received 1st July: Certified LCA received from DOL 2nd July: Certified LCA sent to employer for signature. 6th July: Forms sent to employer for review and signature. 8th July: All certified and signed docs received and reqs for filling been met. 10th July: Case filled with USCIS 14th July: Email notification of receipt 17th July: Email notification of approval (Exactly one month from questionnaire to approval) One month after the layoff was really hard. Talk to your friends and family during this time. I had a really good support system and I can't thank them enough. Don't think much about why it happened, instead work on what can be done now. It's easier said than done but don't try to control things which are not in your control. Plan for the worst and hope for the best. I hope this helps someone going through the same. Feels free to DM me if you are going through same. I understand how it is and I'll try my best to help. Amazon TC: 255k (Seattle) YoE: 6 SWE #amazon #h1b #uber #layoff #interview #experience
Great job.ππ»ππ»ππ»
Congrats OP. Happy for you !
What team/org in Amazon?
It's AWS. Don't want to share team ! Might reveal identity
Hey sidchan!
Godspeed to you man! Really inspirational to read how you traversed this difficult situation
Awesome π
Congrats
Congrats. Very inspiring.
wow. u pulled it off!!! remember this exp always n propel urself fwd.
Congratulations OP! What was your level and TC at uber?
L4
$255k at L4? in Seattle? Can I ask how the negotiations went?
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Inspirational!! Good job π ππ
Thanks :)