Failed onsites. Looking for advice
Interviewed with AWS and OCI. Got rejected in both after the onsites. My tech prep was: solved 350 questions on LC and read through grokking the system design. I felt I did good with the technical part of the interview. Behavioral My current job sucks so I basically did not have enough examples for the tell me about yourself questions. I feel that I did really bad on these rounds. Have FB onsite coming up in like a month. Don't wanna screw that. Any pointers on what could help due to the lack of examples for behavioral? Thinking of joining Interview Kickstart. What do you guys think? TC:120K YOE:3
As an interviewer, I hate the "my job sucks" excuse. Tell me about the impact you had within the limited opportunity that was presented to you. Give me examples of how you atleast tried to go out of your way in your "sucky" job environment/setting.
I never tell them that my job sucks. However, I do have a feeling that my examples are not significant. Like for tell me about a time u had conflict with ur manager, I have examples like how I wanted to automate a slow dev process in the team but since that was not contributing to the feature set/deliverables of the sprint, it was pushed down in the backlog.
I can think of 2 directions that this example could go into. 1. I was so passionate about the automation, I worked on bits and pieces on the side and delivered it. This helped increase my teams productivity by x. 2. This sprint work was complex and demanding, and I worked through roadblocks and tradeoffs to deliver it in a tight timeline.
Are there any pointers you could give me to improve on these questions or maybe a place to do mock interviews for the same?
Start researching behaviorial questions and preparing your answers for each one. Repeat those answers over and over until it flows off your tongue. Say nothing negative about your old job ever. Keep it positive and actionable always.
@OP just curious how is schlumberger? I did petroleum engineering and switched to CS but couldn’t get job with schlumberger, they’re simulation software seemed pretty good?
Definitely avoid. Sucks to the core. I am leetcoding everyday to get out. Please please please dont join.
Also should have used this to have prepared responses for behaviourals https://interviewgenie.com/blog-1/category/Amazon+interviews
Never underestimate the behavioral rounds. A lot of companies will reject you if you fail them even if you did well in the coding rounds. Amazon - leadership principles Google - googleyness Facebook - jedi Netlix - culture fit etc
Thanks for the response man. That's what I need help on. My current job sucks so I basically have never faced any of the situations which behavioral questions ask. How to go about behavioral prep?
Google: https://careers.google.com/how-we-hire/interview/#onsite-interviews Amazon: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/principles Netflix: https://jobs.netflix.com/culture Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/careers/life/preparing-for-your-software-engineering-interview-at-facebook/