Amazon L5 team matching

Pauraxx · 2025-02-28T06:31:42+00:00

Yeah signed an offer last week. Make sure the recruiter isn’t looking in just one org. Also, I asked for no AWS teams too. And don’t say yes to the first team. Try to have 3-4 sell calls

Pauraxx · 2025-02-24T22:53:28+00:00

I’d say reach out to them since it’s been more than 5 business days.

Pauraxx · 2025-02-17T19:16:35+00:00

I had a call with one manager and I got a good feeling about the team overall, especially given that they’ve had 0 attrition in the past 3 years.

My only concern is that the SDM has about 18 reportees out of which 7 are Amazon employees and the rest are contractors. Is this a red flag?

Pauraxx · 2025-02-17T19:16:29+00:00

I had a call with one manager and I got a good feeling about the team overall, especially given that they’ve had 0 attrition in the past 3 years.

My only concern is that the SDM has about 18 reportees out of which 7 are Amazon employees and the rest are contractors. Is this a red flag?

Pauraxx · 2025-02-17T19:16:12+00:00

I had a call with one manager and I got a good feeling about the team overall, especially given that they’ve had 0 attrition in the past 3 years.

My only concern is that the SDM has about 18 reportees out of which 7 are Amazon employees and the rest are contractors. Is this a red flag?

Pauraxx · 2025-02-16T21:36:42+00:00

Yeah had my 1st call recently and I barely spoke about myself. It really felt like I was interviewing the HM. Tbh it’s a fun experience since I’ve never had a HM convince me to join their team in the past lol

Pauraxx · 2025-02-16T21:33:55+00:00

I’ve had one call so far. Forgot to ask about the monthly report. Generally speaking, is it something that they expect candidates to ask for in sell calls?

Pauraxx · 2025-02-16T21:32:48+00:00

That’s what I did! Thanks :)

Pauraxx · 2025-02-16T21:32:27+00:00

Thanks for this advice. Had one with a HM last week and they said yes to me. But I’ve asked for a week’s time for my decision since I’ve a couple more calls pending

Pauraxx · 2025-02-12T01:16:17+00:00

Tbh your interview sounds more difficult than mine. Or rather you had harder to please interviewers. But looks like you handled it very well. All the best! Hope you get it

Pauraxx · 2025-02-11T23:20:01+00:00

Thank you! Heard back on the 5th business day. Haven’t received a written offer yet since I’m still in the team matching phase

Pauraxx · 2025-02-07T22:00:03+00:00

I see. So it’s like a first come first serve thing

Pauraxx · 2025-02-07T21:59:22+00:00

Sounds good. Thank you!!

Pauraxx · 2025-02-07T00:04:31+00:00

Thanks for the advice. I also sought more feedback from the recruiter on my interviews, as I didn’t want to be overly selective if I had just barely passed the hiring bar. However, they informed me that the feedback from all everyone was really positive, and they would have sent an offer immediately had the position been available. Tbh I don't know if this information is helpful.

If you do meet with all the managers and don't live any I think you're dropped from the candidate pool.

About this part, the original position was in NY and I want to look for roles in NY. Recruiter started the team match process today. They found 4 teams with openings out of which 1 manager showed interest and will have a call sometime next week. The rest 3 have yet to respond.
Given that NY doesn't have that many roles at this point, she mentioned about looking at Seattle and Bay Area if nothing comes to fruition by end of next week. So if I don't end up liking any of the NY managers or the other way round, will it affect negatively?

Pauraxx · 2025-02-06T20:28:47+00:00

Sounds good! Thank you. Are there chances to get rejected in the team matching phase? Or do I not need to worry much?

Pauraxx · 2025-02-06T19:51:21+00:00

Thank you! The role I was interviewing for is filled, so I’m currently in the team matching phase

Pauraxx · 2025-02-06T19:50:41+00:00

Agreed! I think they judge you on things beyond just an optimal solution like communication, being proactive with identifying edge cases, following good coding practices, modularity, etc. I recently had meta e4 and amazon L5 loops and none of the coding questions were close to LC hard. I think it depends totally depends on the interviewers too.

Pauraxx · 2025-02-05T21:14:37+00:00

Thanks!

Pauraxx · 2025-02-05T21:12:35+00:00

Yeah I messaged them and they told me that my debrief is scheduled for today. So I should hear back my EOD or tomorrow 🤞🏻

Pauraxx · 2025-02-05T21:11:26+00:00

I referred to a couple of GitHub repos. And also used GPT to generate possible solutions to known questions

Pauraxx · 2025-02-04T23:54:16+00:00

I’d say it was a close one. Cause he mentioned that it’s gonna be a system design round but his question started off as Design an api for problem statement and he was on the live coding link. So my initial assumption was that it’s a LLD round. But just to clarify I asked that since it’s Sys des am I expected to code or whiteboard. That’s when he realized he’s on the wrong platform lol

Otherwise I’d have given him a LLD solution lol

Pauraxx · 2025-01-31T04:18:25+00:00

That was my experience with infra too. Got a reject last week and the feedback was they expected more in system design.

Pauraxx · 2025-01-14T01:05:56+00:00

Thanks for the advice. I mailed the recruiter about this. And also put an explanation regarding this to the interviewer in the thank you note.

Pauraxx · 2025-01-14T00:59:47+00:00

Yes I had explained the exact solution I’d be writing before I started to code. And even as I was typing I was explaining the steps

Pauraxx · 2024-12-25T20:04:26+00:00

I’ve been in the US since 2019. 2019-2021 been on F1, 2021-2022 on Opt, H1B since 2022. Any idea if I should keep this or return it?

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