Finished an onsite with Alexa team recently. Didn't perform well in one of the 4 rounds. So, will that be a sure reject? Two rounds - good One round - ok One round - poor (solved only 1 problem out of 2) Anyone got offer after not performing good in one round?
Dunno about Alexa , but I did poorly on the “bar raiser” round at AWS in one of the 7 interviews and got a reject
The bar raiser is the one place you can't do poorly. They have veto power.
How do you know a round is bar raiser?
probably borderline
Depends on the team, if they’re desperate they might down level you and still make an offer.
It all depends on the debrief and how much interviewers who like you are able to convince others. It’s essentially a debate. They will exchange notes and then discuss. On occasions I have seen people with 5 thumbs down get an offer if they convinced interviewers that they would succeed at an lower designation. Typically seen this on L6 loops where the candidate is a good bar raising L5 but not quite at the L6 level.
I didn’t have a great systems design round. Didn’t fail but I didn’t sound very eloquent. So I got down-leveled but still got the offer and took it. Best of luck.
If you truly did well in the others, you still have a chance. However, it’s very hard to tell how well you did as a candidate because each interviewer is looking for very specific things and a good interviewer will still make you feel like you did well even if you didn’t.
I doubt that Amazon (unlike G or F) can afford to dismiss a candidate only because of a single bad round. But if they do, consider yourself very lucky for dodging this bullet.
One bad coding round at Amazon is more forgivable than a bad or scary response to a behavioral question. A weak tech round combined with a questionable leadership principle isn’t a good combination. Hopefully you were good with the LPs.
I didn't do well on one of the rounds. Still got an offer with no down leveling
Yep, I did (at Amazon). If you did very well in the others, it can still happen.