amazon rejection
just got rejected from Amazon onsite, and i felt like i got the coding questions but one of them i had seen before and they said the reason for rejection was technical abilities and to try again in a couple of years. is it that bad if i knew one of the questions? sucks because got rejected on my birthday
How did you act when u saw the question? Did you act like u never seen it before?
I strongly doubt that this is because of the ‘seen’ question. Practically, almost every interview question is either a “seen question” or a “seen idea”. I think the other rounds didn’t go as well as you thought they did. Don’t worry though. I failed Amazon too when I first gave their interviews. Over time you learn more, interview more and get better and land an offer with whatever company you consider your ultimate place to work.
Happy Birthday. Why do you think you having seen one of the questions had anything to do with it? I think Amazon does 1 question per round after LP questions, so if you couldn’t have missed questions. One of your interviewers likely didn’t believe your solution and/or their solution was different. I’ve had interviewers like that (unacceptable). It’s possible that you didn’t prove very well that your solution was correct or maybe had a hard time coding up your idea. Another possibility is small errors or them noticing errors before you do and correcting you. For example off by one errors. I hate it when things break down like that. Sometimes you know you solved the problems but apparently the interviewers disagree. I’m not surprised any more... One of my problems was about generating all sequence of valid parentheses and I was going for one or free 4 or 5 LC solutions and my interviewer was pushing me towards another and didn’t get mine. Nothing I could do. If I don’t take direction well I get rejected. If I take direction but can’t figure out his was, I get rejected... 🤷🏻♂️ Just don’t worry about it man.
Thank you!! This helped a lot. I will keep my head up and leetcode and keep believing!!
I think it is more of unseen problems. The other candidates probably saw the most of the problems before and did better than you did. If you have seen it before but didn’t say it or said it doesn’t matter. Basically if you haven’t seen it, most likely you fail todays interview standard.
The same happened with me. I got rejected yesterday after an on-site on Monday. They said there were challenges with the technical side of things. In my opinion I got the logic right in all the interviews. Slight corrections from them in the code and edge cases might be it. And my birthday is also coming up in a few days. Damn. I feel ya bro. It doesn’t feel good at all. The google post is inspiring though.
Try again in a couple of years? Not 6 months? Woah that's intense
Yeah man, I’m wondering if it’s considered cheating or something?
No it's not. But you still need to walk through and explain it. You can't just reproduce it from memory and say here's the answer.