Candidates applying for Staff Software Engineer roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amplitude overall takes an average of 18 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amplitude as a Staff Software Engineer according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 100%
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I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amplitude (Vancouver, BC) in Jan 2022
Interview
Interview process contains following interviews:
1 hiring manager interview + coding
1 hr meeting
2 coding interviews
1 distributed design interview
1 senior manager interview
1 final hr meeting
Hiring manager interview has a coding part. One intermediate level question is asked.
They ask two questions in all coding and design interviews. First one is usually intermediate and second one is difficult.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Coding: Simple encoding. Replacing words with numbers
Coding: Parse a log file to calculate statistics.
Coding: Huffman encoding and decoding.
Design: How to make a service highly available?
Design: Key-value solution with x reads per second and y writes per second.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amplitude (San Francisco, CA) in Jul 2022
Interview
A Head-hunter reached out to me. On showing interest he mentioned RTO plans (1-3 days/week). 30 min discussion with recruiter, again he mentioned same (1-3 days/week) RTO plans. I already checked & agreed to 1-3 days/week going to office.
Scheduled technical screen, the interviewer a junior engineer never turned on her video, no introduction or greetings directly jumped to questions. I found the interview experience quite bad but decided not to judge just based on screening.
she asked 2 coding questions, was able to code both, including all edge cases with tests & execution.
after few days recruiter sends a mail saying they decided to move on based on interview feedback. Quite surprised, i asked for feedback but never heard back.
Quite a waste of time, not sure what exactly they judged with 2 typical string manipulation & linkedList questions for a staff role.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Encoding a string message, in a given format for purpose of compression.
2. Remove kth node from end in a linked List