Hi, I've accepted an offer for SDE Amazon new grad for Seattle recently. The selection process seems very mechanized and there is no chance to speak to any recruiter/hiring manager. Plus I would have no clue about the team I would be working in, until a few weeks before joining. Details are very vague. So I wish to ask current Amazon-ians what is the team selection process for Amazon new grads. My profile is mostly research oriented. I'm currently a masters student in a US university with internships in computer vision and thesis in NLP. Is there a chance that my profile would be taken into account for team selection, or is it completely random? I'm hoping to work in a team with applied scientists at Amazon, and hopefully transition into an applied scientist role a couple of years down the line. On another note, any managers or contacts on Blind I could DM, who are looking for Amazon new grads to join their computer vision/NLP team? Thanks. #amazon #newgrad #NLP #computervision #appliedscientist #software #engineering #sde #swe
You will not get a chance to decide which team to work for. There isn't really a team match from your side. Instead, managers of the teams will look at your profile and say, "This person has experience in the domain that we need. So, put him in our team." If no team explicitly asks for you, you'll be put in an arbitrary team randomly. You won't have a say in it either way, unfortunately. The good news is that's its extremely easy to switch teams here. I've switched my team less than 8 months in and I know of people who have switched teams as early as 3 months in.
Thanks for the info! Yes, I'm hoping that a manager picks me for his/her team, so that I get to work on stuff that is more aligned to my profile. I'm trying to network through Amazon-ians I know.
Hey OP, I am in the same boat with you, when is your start day? Have you got your update offer letter / background check yet?
Hi! Amazon gave me May start date for now, but I can select any start date I want. I just have the first offer letter Amazon gave me, nothing on background check or anything else till now.
If you were going to work on a team with AS, you most likely would have had to do a separate ML interview in addition to LC rounds. I’m an incoming ML SDE intern at AWS Rekognition and I had to go through 2 ML interviews, so I would be surprised if it was easier for new grad.
Maybe you're correct. But as far what I've learnt from speaking to Amazon-ians, there is a possibility to work in such a team. Even my final interviewer was some senior SDM leading a AWS AI computer vision team and was also working on Rekognition. He also recommended to let the recruiters know when I said I wanted to work in such a team. Problem is, I have no recruiter point of contact.
No chance. Switch once here if you want.
I had the same experience a while back, I received an offer for a new grad position and I didn't know anything about the position other than the location lol. The interviewers I got were not even from that location.