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Interview Experience for Amazon SDE 3 applying to Google L7

YoE: 10.7 (7@amazon — SDE3 for 2.7 years) Current designation: SDE3 Current salary : 92L + 25L stock Location: BLR, IN

I got a call from google for L7 role (BLR) which is staff role in India afaik. HR mentioned Payrange: 2-3Cr

I get mixed reviews from people so asking again for BLR folks:

  1. Amount of focus on coding round vs system design?
  2. Amount of leet code preparation?
  3. In the interview Is the focus more on leadership or knowing deeper tech nuances?
  4. What’s the payrange I can get?
  5. Is google L7 equivalent of amazon L6? Levels.fyi has split so not exactly sure.

I am looking for responses from people who have actually gone through similar experiences rather than “I heard from my sources”.

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PrancingKoala
PrancingKoala
Hindustan Times6mo

Bhai don't let anyone you to not try this fortune. Just do it. People will reject tap water for Bisleri and then eat Pani_puri at road side.

SwirlyPancake
SwirlyPancake
Optum6mo

😂😂

PerkyNoodle
PerkyNoodle
Gojek6mo

This is the best advice I've seen 😅 If this question was asked on Blind, everyone would be like "Oh that's too low", "Don't join there".

SleepyKoala
SleepyKoala
Infosys6mo

Please tell me your tech stack, it would be helpful. Thank you

PeppyNarwhal
PeppyNarwhal
Accenture6mo

Please let us know about your tech stack as well.

SleepyKoala
SleepyKoala
Infosys6mo

Mine? It's NodeJs, Java, Spring Boot, AWS

DizzyLlama
DizzyLlama
Freelancer6mo

L7 is senior staff. It's like similar to Principal SDE / Senior principal SDE in Amazon. Hence the pay scope. Half of it might be stocks if not more.

Standard leetcode and sys design ain't gonna get you in. You'd have to show impact in your current role

CosmicCoconut
CosmicCoconut
Amazon6mo

Thanks!

FuzzyNugget
FuzzyNugget
Linkedin6mo

For L7, you will have to show wide impact. It’s a senior staff role, it doesn’t map to Amazon l5. At L7 leadership skills matter just as much technical knowledge.

Although google does love to down level, they might end up giving L6 offer which is staff. It will still come with a significant pay bump.

WigglyRaccoon
WigglyRaccoon
Google6mo

Amazon L6 is not equivalent of Google L5. Its rare!

SnoozyWalrus
SnoozyWalrus
Amazon6mo

Do you mean Amazon L6 is lower than Google L5?

WigglyRaccoon
WigglyRaccoon
Google6mo

Lol; in most cases Amazon L7 is mapped to Google L6! But Amazon L6 is not getting Google L5. About this issue, most of the HR, recruiters etc were laid off & since then all third party & new folks are doing the maths. Otherwise they
would have never send a L7 interview request.

L7 pay ie beyond 2.65 and it goes upto +3.25 Cr. I have seen only once a L7 SDM of Amazon making it to L7 IC at G.

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