amazon vs Google
1. Between Amazon & Google, who has harder interview process when it comes to the behavioral side (14 principles, Googliness etc). 2. Does behavior interview gets harder by increasing level of responsibility (e.g, level 5 vs level 7, Amazon ) or the difference is minimal since we are talking about ”values”.
Amazon for most roles, but the leadership principals are a wild card that could (and do) fuck really strong candidates.
Can you elaborate on this? Currently interviewing there now
Amazon was a very hard interview personally and I was interviewing for a level 6 position. I was totally exhausted after the 6 rounds + portfolio and whiteboarding session. Never interviewed at google.
Amazon was pretty trivial
VS? Also, what was the type of role you interviewed for? (PM, Tech, Dev, BD etc.)
Dev AWS L6
Google is more difficult in the behavioral interview. I've seen some posts along that said they didn't get an offer because of no "culture fit" I think it comes down to which one you can prepare for. Amazon gives you the list of principles so you can plan accordingly. For Google it's a wild card!
Frankly, the same Amazon 14 principles apply @ Google & must other large companies too. with some minor additions; e.g., incremental value for Google would emphasis on not hiring extreme jerks (while Amazon may be relatively ok with it).
How did you guys ever pass a test in school, if preparing for pre-defined questions (LPs) is so hard?
Oh trust me - those questions and details are hardcore - each lp has a couple of good questions that will throw you a curve ball in directions you didn’t see coming. Did you try to do an amazon interview onsite? (Sde1/new grad doesn’t count)
Oh yes. I wouldn't criticize without experience. I got an offer for L6 role 2 years ago, but didn't take it. Interviewed again recently to a different team and got a much better offer, joining in February.
I found both interviews to be about the same and I got the same result on both: strong hire but downlevel. (G-L6, A-L7)
You interviewed for a l8 and got down leveled to l7? Did you take one?
Sorry, more like this: TPM, interviewed Google at L5 but thought I would be put into L6 loop. So I easily got L5. Amazon I interviewed for L7 and got L6. Took Amazon (Google still no TM yet). It was as I expected: I didn't have enough experience with very large scale systems but they feel I could be a quick promote if I prove myself and they gave me the role to do that.
I’m gonna guess Amazon cause well Google doesn’t care as much about it.