Staff Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California
Process
A head-hunter reached out to me. On showing interest he mentioned RTO plans (1-3 days/week). 30 min discussion with recruiter, again he mentioned same (1-3 days/week) RTO plans. I already checked & agreed to 1-3 days/week going to office.
Scheduled technical screen, the interviewer a junior engineer never turned on her video, no introduction or greetings directly jumped to questions. I found the interview experience quite bad but decided not to judge just based on screening. she asked 2 coding questions, was able to code both, including all edge cases with tests & execution.
after few days recruiter sends a mail saying they decided to move on based on interview feedback. Quite surprised, i asked for feedback but never heard back.
Quite a waste of time, not sure what exactly they judged with 2 typical string manipulation & linkedList questions for a staff role.
Questions
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Encoding a string message, in a given format for purpose of compression.
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Remove kth node from end in a linked list
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Amplitude Staff Software Engineer role in San Francisco, California.
Success Rate
Amplitude's interview process for their Staff Software Engineer roles in San Francisco, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
Experience Rating
Candidates reported having very negative feelings for Amplitude's Staff Software Engineer interview process in San Francisco, California.
Amplitude Work Experiences
- 5.0A couple of tough years, but the future is brightSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeSan Francisco, CaliforniaMay 24, 2024Pros: 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.
- 2.0Ship fast at the expense of quality of codes and lifeSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeSan Francisco, CaliforniaAugust 16, 2021Pros: 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.
- 5.0The best peopleSoftware Engineer • Former EmployeeSan Francisco, CaliforniaFebruary 6, 2026Pros: Some of the smartest and most high-integrity people you’ll ever work with. There are lots of interesting problems as the company reinvents itself to bring AI to product analytics.Cons: Tough market out there for B2B SaaS right now.
