Amazon New Grad OA, Low Bar?
Just took Amazon’s OA part 1/3 (debugging) for New Grad SDE role. It had seven questions where you had to identify bugs in algorithmic functions and fix them to pass all test cases. I’m pretty sure I only correctly answered 4/7, as I ran out of time and couldn’t fully grok the functions under the time constraints. This being Amazon, I wasn’t too upset and just accepted I wouldn’t move on to the next part of the OA. However, just a few hours after completing the debugging OA, I received the second part in an email (2 LC-style questions.) What gives? Does Amazon just send all parts of New Grad OA no matter how you do on previous parts, or is the bar really that low? I was looking around and read that you usually need to get 6/7 or 7/7 on the debugging portion to move forward, but I’m not sure if they changed the process or what. #swe
Usually you'll get all 3 OAs. You may get more interview rounds if you get less correct in the OAs, or a reject if you did too bad.
I saw a few MIS majors getting hired as SDE1s on LinkedIn. My guess is that they don’t have a problem hiring average Joe’s since the company is so damn big they can’t nitpick. If you suck they’ll pip you out so it might be getting to the point where they’ll roll the dice
if only candidates would read their emails lel i’m pretty sure that, somewhere in the process when i was going through it, it mentioned that you’d get all of the assessments. it’s just that they might come one after the other and/or in a diff order
looking back at the emails, it actually says they review and score each assessment before sending the next one. however, I believe it is straight cap based off of Amazon in comments saying otherwise
You get all of the assessments, but your chance of joining is really slim now. Those debugging parts should have been pretty easy. If you struggled with them, you would struggle with work here quite a lot.
Yeah, it wasn’t even that difficult, I just didn’t approach it right and ran out of time. Realized too late that I wasn’t making an effort to understand what each function was doing. Live and learn, I guess.
Hmm what location? I didn’t get any debugging, just hackerrank then work sim and work style assessment
I think they just send it. Regardless, I heard that Amazon new grad waitlist nowadays (after passing onsite) is very long and only some of them get the actual offers. But I guess Amazon employees can chime in for details.