[rahimnathwani]

Of the people who interviewed me on-site at Google, none were in any of the same teams as the roles for which I was being considered.

Only after my packet had passed the hiring committee did I speak with potential hiring managers about team fit.

When I was interviewed at Amazon, all but one of the interviewers was a future colleague. And the one who wasn't led an adjacent team.

[grogenaut]

Amazon has started doing general hire and then placement for senior engineers in some areas, international hires in consumer goods for instance. I like this better as it gives you a lot more options. In the other model if you didn't have good fit you might end up with another partial loop.

I also like this better than the Facebook model where you don't find out your real team for several months after the hire.

For these broad loops they pull people from across the company to do the interview but will have people from your role if they can. Which isn't hard, the roles for most hiring at sdm, sde, fee, TPM.

Amazon always puts one "unbiased" bar raiser on the loop to ensure hiring isn't made for local only optima like "I need someone for 3-6 month shortfall so I'll lower my standards." These people have veto power on the hire and also play the consistency in level role.

Edit: clarity

[rahimnathwani]

That's great.

My experience interviewing for a role at Amazon was a while ago (2012) and in a place where they don't have massive teams of people (Beijing). So I'm sure it's different in present-day Seattle.