That could also be based on a difference of expectations in skills for a job family at Google vs. Amazon. An Amazon Sr. SDE (L6) is expected to have strong lea

That could also be based on a difference of expectations in skills for a job family at Google vs. Amazon. An Amazon Sr. SDE (L6) is expected to have strong leadership skills, which means interpersonal tech lead abilities - including mentorship of others, communication with stakeholders, etc. This person may not have had the abilities or interest in having this so they went to Google which seems to focus exclusively on leetcode-esque abilities. (My data is ~5 years stale, but I interviewed with Google a few years back and didn't get a SINGLE "behavioural" interview question, or anything about my prior experience. It was 100% "solve this problem on a whiteboard").