Re:My Interviews with Amazon
by ytanotheramzn on Thursday July 28, 2016 @12:31PM
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When I've seen this with people interviewing in Amazon, it's generally because they're tagged to a higher level position, and during the interview, they decide they're not a fit at that level, but possibly at the one below it. i.e., he might have originally been interviewing for an SDEII position, but they felt his skill-set was closer to what they look for in an SDEI, but still wanted to make him an offer to join the team.
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The comments in the original blog post suggests a gap of 60k with the offer. Your comment makes sense only if he was interviewing for a Principal Engineer position or something, but instead was offered an SDE-I position. Plus I'm pretty sure very few (if any) non-Principal SDEs at Amazon actually get 200K in the first year.
Yes. If you can be promoted directly from SDE-I to SDE-II, there should not be a ~60K gap between. I've had the described thing happen (start interview by assuming level 3, but hire at level 2), and the gap is more like 20K. In other words: they should have known better.
Ex-Amazonian here, this is indeed the answer to this question.
Then the issue is the fact that this exact point was not communicated to the author. "Sorry, we really think you'd be more suited to role X rather than Y, and the range for that role is B rather than A. But we'd still like you to work for us in role B!"
Re:My Interviews with Amazon
by sneezing_turtle on Thursday July 28, 2016 @01:12PM
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This is the correct answer.