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When I've seen this with people interviewing in Amazon, it's generally because they're tagged to a higher level position, and during the interview, they decide
by ytanotheramzn 10y ago
When I've seen this with people interviewing in Amazon, it's generally because they're tagged to a higher level position, and during the interview, they decide they're not a fit at that level, but possibly at the one below it. i.e., he might have originally been interviewing for an SDEII position, but they felt his skill-set was closer to what they look for in an SDEI, but still wanted to make him an offer to join the team.
- sneezing_turtle 10y agoThis is the correct answer.
- ruddct 10y agoEx-Amazonian here, this is indeed the answer to this question.
- zo1 10y agoThen the issue is the fact that this exact point was not communicated to the author. "Sorry, we really think you'd be more suited to role X rather than Y, and the range for that role is B rather than A. But we'd still like you to work for us in role B!"
- rohitnair 10y agoThe comments in the original blog post suggests a gap of 60k with the offer. Your comment makes sense only if he was interviewing for a Principal Engineer position or something, but instead was offered an SDE-I position. Plus I'm pretty sure very few (if any) non-Principal SDEs at Amazon actually get 200K in the first year.
- mturmon 10y agoYes. If you can be promoted directly from SDE-I to SDE-II, there should not be a ~60K gap between. I've had the described thing happen (start interview by assuming level 3, but hire at level 2), and the gap is more like 20K. In other words: they should have known better.