Amazon- bar raiser?
My 3rd of interview was the longest interview(1.5 hrs). I was initially asked about all my projects(not much in detail), lot of computer fundamentals(OS mainly),1 or 2 behavioural questions, a coding question(Leetcode Med/hard) which took some time to code and the approach to another question involving trees and database.This round went very well I suppose. My last interview was for around 45 mins where in I was asked 1 or 2 behavioural questions, some computer fundamentals and again approach to 1 coding question and implementation of another(where I made mistake in coding but got the algorithm right).But the questions asked here were simpler than the previous round. Since, I was a fresher, I was not interviewing with a particular team and hence there was really no "bar raiser is the one from a different team" thing in my case. Before the last interview, the HR told me that the last interviewer is a senior panel member. He was an SDE and was at Amazon since 7 years. None of the interviewers did any cross questioning in the behavioural questions. I am just curious as to who is more probable of being the bar raiser? The 3rd interviewer or the 4th one?
From which college?
How does it matter?It was an off campus drive anyway.
Location?
I work at Amazon and am a bar raiser. Based on the interview descriptions you gave it’s not possible to identify who the bar raiser is - could be either. That said, I wouldn’t worry too much about the timing situation. At Amazon after you interview there’s a debrief where all members of the interview panel discuss their votes and feedback. At the end of the debrief a decision is made for next steps: hire, don’t hire, need more information, or potentially hire but not right for the interviewing team for some reason (not super common). If you are done interviewing and don’t have an answer back yet, that definitely isn’t an indicator you are being rejected. If the answer was don’t hire, you’d know quickly. I suspect the debrief wasn’t able to happen on time or they are trying to determine best next step.
So, do you think that if the last round was BR but I made a coding error(told the right approach but made an error in coding which would result in wrong answers for multiple test cases). I was unable to detect and the BR also didn't mention anything about it so I thought the code was fine but I realized that its not the case. Anyway, in cases like these are the BR's a little forgiving if all the previous codes in all the round were done after the interviewer confirmed that they would work or will the last code hinder the acceptance chances greatly?
We take in to account all interviews to get as complete a picture as possible. If you did really well in two coding interviews and had right approach but messed up the code, that isn’t an automatic no. I’ve voted not to hire before and have had my mind changed because of how the other interviews went.
he said pretty clearly... even if the BR votes hire, the outcome can still be no hire...
Keep on the recruiter. They should get back to you and give an honest answer. They are supposed to have feedback for you within a week. My experience was stellar: I had in person interview scheduled exactly one week after phone screen. Panel review was next business day after my interview and recruiter got back to me right after that meeting. I had verbal offer the next day (which was the initial lowball b.s.).... then onto negotiation and higher level approvals before we settled on a new verbal. Only once I verbally accepted would she generate it in writing. They are being very careful about having offers shared around.
Why would it matter which is the bar raiser. You are done interviewing. You passed or didn't pass.
just curious to know if I messed up the code in the bar raiser or some other round coz messing up in bar raiser would most probably result in a reject
You are trying to read into the process too much, which is normal after an interview, but it does not help in any way. You could reject from any interviewer. Just wait for the response.