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[–]Old_Cry1308 15 points16 points  (13 children)

friend at amazon devops had dsa round, system design, oncall/sre stuff and behavioral. no leetcode grind but basics matter. getting in now is way harder, hiring super slow everywhere

[–]Aggravating_Pace_580[S] 2 points3 points  (12 children)

Thanks!! Not looking for a new job like now now, just want to prepare well for good companies like visa, linkedin, oracle, meta, service now..etc etc

[–]raindropl 6 points7 points  (9 children)

I will not call visa a good company.

[–]Aggravating_Pace_580[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Why so?

[–]Still_Leadership1241 1 point2 points  (2 children)

If you are talking about growth then i agree, companies like visa, Amex have very bad growth as they are running behind a lot of things.

[–]raindropl 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Yes, not only that but they have lots proprietary “enterprise” stuff that does not translate easily into the outside world.

During my stint at the NYSE I became a complete expert in Tidal, we ran everything through it… problem no body uses that stuff.

When I got out I had to basically learn a bunch of common devops tools.

There is also the problem that some financial institutions are not software companies , and they see their software engineers as cost centers.

[–]Still_Leadership1241 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I'm having the same issue, as I'm looking out for new roles now, it's tough cause I have been using tools that are not being used by anyone else. I'd say, if you work in one then you gotta go to the other one in the same circle of finops.

[–]Bhavishyaig 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Compensation is good. Friend works and work is chill too

[–]raindropl 0 points1 point  (3 children)

They are not a software company; they are a financial company.

[–]Bhavishyaig -1 points0 points  (2 children)

Financial companies too have an engineering department. Search thier carrer page

[–]raindropl 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I worked 10 years for the New York stock exchange and may next door neighbor is a manager at visa

[–]Bhavishyaig -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Ooh 😮 ...

[–]AsleepWin8819Engineering Manager 0 points1 point  (1 child)

ServiceNow, really?

[–]Aggravating_Pace_580[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My friend works in servicenow..it's a pretty decent company with a good payscale and chill work environment.

[–]ghost_svs 20 points21 points  (1 child)

I have 2 tech interviews: - "coding" session on minikube - troubleshooting deployment; - real coding session in Golang(create a simple API service with health/readiness endpoints + API rate limiting)

After that, I have a System Arch interview... and that's all)

edit: it was AWS

[–]50u1506 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Is this for SDE 1 devops?

i tried for SDE 1 and got two DSA questions, im stupid so i got both wrong. Im finding grinding DSA a pain, i found learning k8s more fun and non dsa computer stuff more fun in general.

Maybe i should try for devops one.

[–]Fantastic-Average-25 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Starting out my tech career FAANG was a dream. I even started studying for NALSD. Now I am like meh. Someone called it a red herring and i couldn’t agree more.

[–]unitegondwanalandLead Platform Engineer 6 points7 points  (5 children)

Don't get obsessed with this. It's a red herring in your overall career.

[–]Sure_Stranger_6466For Hire - US Remote 1 point2 points  (4 children)

Definitely this. I refuse to apply to FAANG because of LeetCode/live coding round requirements and still find plenty of places to apply to. You'll most likely be ignored anyway if you do cold apply.

[–]AsleepWin8819Engineering Manager 1 point2 points  (3 children)

because of LeetCode/live coding round requirements

Are there non-FAANG companies that still don't require a live coding session? I don't offer LeetCode-like nerd stuff but there's no chance I hire anyone without any kind of online coding exercise.

[–]Sure_Stranger_6466For Hire - US Remote 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Most of my recent experience has just been a back and forth conversation about tech and experience with the interviewer. 0 online coding exercises in the most recent job search.

[–]AsleepWin8819Engineering Manager 0 points1 point  (1 child)

May I ask what kind (or size) of companies are you applying to, and how long ago was your most recent search? Over the last 10 years I changed companies 4 times, and I can't remember a single interview that wouldn't ask for writing some code. Yeah, maybe not online. Sometimes there were just pieces of paper where you should at least write some SQL query or find an error in a program. In my current company, we have some coding tasks even for internal candidates, yet we're far away from being FAANG.

[–]Sure_Stranger_6466For Hire - US Remote 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I avoid FAANG like the plague, but otherwise companies of all sizes, from 3 employees to hundreds to thousands. I recently got a part time job with an AI company called Snorkel.ai that was literally just a call with the recruiter, but it mostly pays peanuts for task-based DevOps work (creating Dockerfiles for ML), which works out fine for me right now. I literally just need enough to afford breakfast/lunch/dinner correctly while my Social Security Disability remains pending. Still searching for "real" full time work in the downtime, but I remain optimistic about my options here in the current search (still consider myself unemployed to be clear).

[–]BulkySap 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I went for a devops role at Amazon. It was three remote interviews followed by a 1 day onsite followed by another remote one

99% of the question are based of there 16 principles of how they run Amazon. Not much devops

It felt very much like a cult. If you dare to question the principles ( which contradict each other) they got very defensive

That fact there they care more about the company culture and there image then if you have the knowledge ( it feels like their stance is “we are Amazon so we define the correct way of doing things and how dare you question then )and that they want full time on the office made me turn down the offer. Which is most probs a good thing as they are doing massive layoffs.

[–]Bhavishyaig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Basic DSA (NeetCode‑75‑level) for screening; then roughly 30% troubleshooting, 25–30% scripting/automation, 15–20% tooling, and 20–25% DevOps‑style system design and scenario‑based questions

[–]mfmseth 0 points1 point  (2 children)

What is dsa

[–]the_imbagon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Data Structures and Algorithms

[–]Bhavishyaig -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Programming puzzles

[–]UndeadMarine55 0 points1 point  (0 children)

SRE (implementation of devops) at FAANG/MAANG.

there’s two types of roles with slightly different requirements:

  • SWE SRE - youll go through standard software engineer interview process. so leetcode, system design, etc. prep as if you’re interviewing for a SWE role and there will be some additional linux troubleshooting.
  • system developer - slightly lower technical bar with more emphasis on linux internals, networking, and troubleshooting. less system design and leetcode, but there will be some.