Amplitude

Software Engineer Interview Experience - United States

October 29, 2024

Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Recruiter chat

take-home technical screen on HackerRank (i.e. no interviewer)

recruiter ghosted me after my technical. got no feedback or replies even after reaching out. Did the technical within a day of receiving it and well within the given time limit

Questions

You are given a JS object describing an employee. You are also given a schema object describing the prescribed types for properties on an employee object. Compare the employee object to the given schema object and return an error for various bad states (e.g. wrong type, missing field, etc) or OK if the object conforms.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 11 interview experiences for the Amplitude Software Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

18%

Pass Rate

Amplitude's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in the United States is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive36%

Neutral18%

Negative45%

Candidates reported having mixed feelings for Amplitude's Software Engineer interview process in United States.

Amplitude Work Experiences

Ship fast at the expense of quality of codes and life

Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Francisco, California

August 16, 2021

Pros: Company is becoming IPO ready kudos to Sales and Marketing The Sales teams are doing a great job.

Cons: Engineers generally have a miserable and chaotic life Leadership is not building for the future, mostly focus only on the short-term No QA team. No standard on testings. Nada Ship fast = ship now + test later On-call means fire-fighting, patching and working around the untested stuffs Little regards to security i.e. every new hire downloads a snapshot of the production database to their Mac. Everyone has access to almost everything. People had accidentally deleted things in production.

Ship fast at the expense of quality of codes and life

Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Francisco, California

August 16, 2021

Pros: Company is becoming IPO ready kudos to Sales and Marketing The Sales teams are doing a great job.

Cons: Engineers generally have a miserable and chaotic life Leadership is not building for the future, mostly focus only on the short-term No QA team. No standard on testings. Nada Ship fast = ship now + test later On-call means fire-fighting, patching and working around the untested stuffs Little regards to security i.e. every new hire downloads a snapshot of the production database to their Mac. Everyone has access to almost everything. People had accidentally deleted things in production.

Great

Software Engineer • Former Employee

San Francisco, California

September 22, 2018

Pros: Had a great time and worked with a great team!

Cons: There is not much to say here.

Software Engineer • Former Employee

San Francisco, California

September 22, 2018

Pros: Had a great time and worked with a great team!

Cons: There is not much to say here.

A couple of tough years, but the future is bright

Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Francisco, California

Pros: Every tech company has gone through a rough patch in the last few years. Amplitude is no different. However, the product and customers speak for themselves. They are excited to use what we have built, and even more excited for what we are building. It is rare that you get so much unsolicited positive feedback on a product, but that is the norm here.

Cons: What Amplitude is trying to do is clear to me. That does not always come through in our company strategy, though, which changes a lot. We end up building the same, valuable things but under different names and organizations for not much reason. All things considered, that is not the worst problem to have.

A couple of tough years, but the future is bright

Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Francisco, California

Pros: Every tech company has gone through a rough patch in the last few years. Amplitude is no different. However, the product and customers speak for themselves. They are excited to use what we have built, and even more excited for what we are building. It is rare that you get so much unsolicited positive feedback on a product, but that is the norm here.

Cons: What Amplitude is trying to do is clear to me. That does not always come through in our company strategy, though, which changes a lot. We end up building the same, valuable things but under different names and organizations for not much reason. All things considered, that is not the worst problem to have.

Ship fast at the expense of quality of codes and life

Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Francisco, California

August 16, 2021

Pros: Company is becoming IPO ready kudos to Sales and Marketing The Sales teams are doing a great job.

Cons: Engineers generally have a miserable and chaotic life Leadership is not building for the future, mostly focus only on the short-term No QA team. No standard on testings. Nada Ship fast = ship now + test later On-call means fire-fighting, patching and working around the untested stuffs Little regards to security i.e. every new hire downloads a snapshot of the production database to their Mac. Everyone has access to almost everything. People had accidentally deleted things in production.

2.0
Ship fast at the expense of quality of codes and life
Software Engineer • Current Employee
San Francisco, California
August 16, 2021
Pros: Company is becoming IPO ready kudos to Sales and Marketing The Sales teams are doing a great job.
Cons: Engineers generally have a miserable and chaotic life Leadership is not building for the future, mostly focus only on the short-term No QA team. No standard on testings. Nada Ship fast = ship now + test later On-call means fire-fighting, patching and working around the untested stuffs Little regards to security i.e. every new hire downloads a snapshot of the production database to their Mac. Everyone has access to almost everything. People had accidentally deleted things in production.

Great

Software Engineer • Former Employee

San Francisco, California

September 22, 2018

Pros: Had a great time and worked with a great team!

Cons: There is not much to say here.

5.0
Great
Software Engineer • Former Employee
San Francisco, California
September 22, 2018
Pros: Had a great time and worked with a great team!
Cons: There is not much to say here.

A couple of tough years, but the future is bright

Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Francisco, California

Pros: Every tech company has gone through a rough patch in the last few years. Amplitude is no different. However, the product and customers speak for themselves. They are excited to use what we have built, and even more excited for what we are building. It is rare that you get so much unsolicited positive feedback on a product, but that is the norm here.

Cons: What Amplitude is trying to do is clear to me. That does not always come through in our company strategy, though, which changes a lot. We end up building the same, valuable things but under different names and organizations for not much reason. All things considered, that is not the worst problem to have.

5.0
A couple of tough years, but the future is bright
Software Engineer • Current Employee
San Francisco, California
May 24, 2024
Pros: Every tech company has gone through a rough patch in the last few years. Amplitude is no different. However, the product and customers speak for themselves. They are excited to use what we have built, and even more excited for what we are building. It is rare that you get so much unsolicited positive feedback on a product, but that is the norm here.
Cons: What Amplitude is trying to do is clear to me. That does not always come through in our company strategy, though, which changes a lot. We end up building the same, valuable things but under different names and organizations for not much reason. All things considered, that is not the worst problem to have.

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