1. Almost 11 years of experience. 2. L5 SDE at Amazon but no path to L6. 3. I understand distributed systems beyond the depth of alex xu, grokking, etc. I am familiar with topics such as linearizability, consistency, raft, variations of paxos, etc. I am ready to work hard and ramp on the technical side won't be a problem. I am worried about the organizational expectations in the interview and also at the job. Recruiter is ok to target E6. Kindly advise 🙏🏻 #interview #meta #E5 #E6 #swe #leetcode #systemdesign
what about your technical leadership and influencing others on your team and other teams? that is gonna be what makes a 6 too
I curretly lead an initiative with 4 other SDEs. I have carved out from away team work (influencing the other team). But I don't want to wait for another whole year to see a promo with minimal bump.
Meta said they need minimum of 5 YOE for E5 band
Meta recruiters say all kinds of things, very few of them are true. We have 2.5 YoE E5 at Meta.
Woah. 2.5 YOE and E5. Maybe internal promo from e4 to to E5? After I failed to pass on site for e4, recruiter said to retry a year from now for e4 again since my 4 YOE won't be enough to qualify
You need training on self confidence more than leetcode or distributed systems. Kindly advise? Yeah people eat humble people like you for breakfast these days. Of course interview the higher level. Let them decide what to offer
Meta e5 is same as Amazon e6
If you are SDE2 at Amazon, E6 will be pretty hard. E6 is toughest level to operate at. But, always target higher. Even if they downlevel, E5 is not bad as well
Assume you will get downleveled in any interview. Humans always feel safer in the debrief when they do this. They can prove how smart they are and how high their bar is by rejecting you for level N, and sleep well about still giving you the opportunity at N-1. The level you interview at anchors the conversation. It is almost impossible to get hired above that.
Have you worked on this paxos , linearizability etc ?
I have leveraged systems that use paxos along with chain replication that provide transactional semantics for their clients. I know about linearizability because I also had to research about snapshot isolation for one of our projects.
Wow great !! It’s very rare to come across such projects
Have you done LeetCode? Whens the last time you interviewed?
I'm kinda curious at what level they stop using LC. Seems kinda silly to have an E6 (and certainly an E7) do LC
I did Blind 75 and now I am practicing other question on Leetcode. I interviewed 2 years ago with 2 startups, got one offer but decided not to switch.