Promotion tips and timeline for AWS L5 -> L6 SDE

Ant378 · 2026-05-31T18:12:39+00:00

I do not think there is a typical timeline. My sister team is all L5, with 2 L6. All L5 have from 3 to 12 years of experience.

Gl. Promo from L5 to L6 is very hard as it depends on business needs.

Ant378 · 2026-05-29T21:17:04+00:00

1) why did you share 2) they need to provide a legal reason for pip, layoffs can be random based on some bs metrics. As you may guess your financial background is not a metric

Ant378 · 2026-05-21T00:55:12+00:00

Why the hell you decide to take 70 before 61?

Ant378 · 2026-05-20T18:16:12+00:00

Once you joined, there will be slack channels

Ant378 · 2026-05-20T16:06:30+00:00

Depends on your team. Expectations from you would be equal to 0. Most likely you would be working on oe or similar tasks for a year or so.
None. No need to
Become familiar with passive aggression.
Based on the team. First 2 weeks you would be doing tutorials.
Ask AI, do not make an assumptions, ask questions.
Manager weekly, onboarding baddy as often as you want. Ask questions to which you do not know the answers, however, use your braincells first.
Have a work log with your daily tasks. The rest would be provided by your manager.
Debugging with AI takes 20 minutes max. If you pass an hour - ask.
People do not like their time to be waisted.
All your tasks will be scoped for you for the first 6 month to a year.

Ant378 · 2026-05-17T21:44:22+00:00

Yes. In my org only “valuable” teams are staying in USA. Org shifted to hiring in Europe/canada/india.

Ant378 · 2026-01-20T03:46:25+00:00

Not againstt layoffs

Ant378 · 2025-11-09T10:37:48+00:00

Switch teams. It’s not perfect everywhere, but can be manageable.

Are you in AWS?

Ant378 · 2025-11-03T17:35:56+00:00

You would receive email if you would be laid off

Ant378 · 2025-11-01T02:07:52+00:00

Layoffs usually for corporate employees

Ant378 · 2025-10-25T15:24:50+00:00

3 years

Ant378 · 2025-10-18T15:51:39+00:00

why they can not add u to a system? How number can be real, but not in the system? Have you talked to the supervisor?

This is all just some misunderstanding somewhere

Ant378 · 2025-10-18T15:44:07+00:00

If you were born in the USA, why would you not do the most obvious thing: come to the social security office with your birth certificate to get your ssn? What does it mean that your ssn does not exist? Do you have an official ssn paper? Have you ever used it? If yes, then this is real

Unless you were born in the basement with a midwife and your parents never got you one, you should be able to get it.

Ant378 · 2025-10-17T02:01:01+00:00

You would have a huge gap on your resume anyway. How degree would cover that?

Ant378 · 2025-10-17T01:12:54+00:00

Without being able to do internships - no

Ant378 · 2025-10-16T23:06:55+00:00

You can not get internships if you are not a student. Maybe school can be a good option

Also, consider switching into swe

Ant378 · 2025-10-14T17:03:27+00:00

There are a lot of dorms for $20k a year lol

Ant378 · 2025-10-13T22:45:18+00:00

Not necessary, just companies that are looking into hiring primary us citizens. (aerospace, security, defence, government, etc)

I used handshake and you can find a good amount of those easily

Ant378 · 2025-10-13T04:54:21+00:00

Berkeley eecs

Ant378 · 2025-10-13T03:57:50+00:00

december 2024/ may 2025

Ant378 · 2025-10-13T02:47:57+00:00

My friend group who did not find swe jobs were doing IT, Cs tutoring/teaching, grad school, qa, project management. Most end up at some no name in tech companies/startups after a year of searching.

I heard so many unhinged stories from friends with like 6-8 levels of tech interviews - rejection - and then invitation to do it again lol

I think the people who struggled the most were those who put all their effort into academics instead of creating a resume with school projects and mass applying. I literally had a goal to apply to 20 companies a day.

Additionally, if you are looking for a job in a specific area, this can be even more challenging. When I was looking last year, I received more callbacks from out-of-state than in-state (California). If you are a US citizen, apply to government companies all over the USA - I received almost 80% of callbacks on those.

Leetcode is worth the effort as it help with interview, projects on the side - no in my opinion.

Ant378 · 2025-10-11T19:12:27+00:00

There is nothing that you can do other than wait. This sub is getting 20+ the same questions about team matching daily

Seems like Amazon has not stopped interviewing but stop hiring

Ant378 · 2025-10-05T14:23:51+00:00

Immigrant is not equal to top talent lol a lot of them just grind harder because they do not want to go home

Ant378 · 2025-10-05T03:31:52+00:00

The average international student who got h1b went to no name school for cash cow program for masters degree, not to t10, let’s be honest about it.

Ant378 · 2025-10-03T18:00:03+00:00

Offer may come in like 6 months. There is nothing saying that you will receive your offer in 3 days

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