As a college hire, it was a good place to get my feet wet in the industry and see how products are built at scale. A lot of internal tooling is not going to be used elsewhere, but building on AWS is great for when you leave.
It's hard to feel like you are making a huge impact when there are 100,000 engineers. Promotions sometimes feel arbitrary, and you have to put in your time.
Data Structures & Algorithms Medium/Hard LeetCode style. Time complexity discussion. Edge cases & testing. System Design (simplified for SDE I) Not large-scale architecture. Examples: design a URL shortener, elevator system, or parking lot. Mo
It was a 3-hour interview: two LeetCode, one system design, and one behavioral. One round was with a Bar Raiser. The process is pretty simple. Basic 150 Blind is good enough to pass the interview.
Once you’re scheduled, you get one day for a three-round loop: * The first is a low-level design and behavioral round. * The second has two DSA questions. * The third is a one-hour behavioral interview. It’s about four hours total in one day.
Data Structures & Algorithms Medium/Hard LeetCode style. Time complexity discussion. Edge cases & testing. System Design (simplified for SDE I) Not large-scale architecture. Examples: design a URL shortener, elevator system, or parking lot. Mo
It was a 3-hour interview: two LeetCode, one system design, and one behavioral. One round was with a Bar Raiser. The process is pretty simple. Basic 150 Blind is good enough to pass the interview.
Once you’re scheduled, you get one day for a three-round loop: * The first is a low-level design and behavioral round. * The second has two DSA questions. * The third is a one-hour behavioral interview. It’s about four hours total in one day.