I just got rejected from TPM at Amazon and I am wondering if do you think a bad writing exercise would be a rejection reason? since I feel I did a decent job at the rest of interviews. Thanks a lot.
What’s the writing exercise?
An essay asked for L6 positions
No I mean what did it cover? A scenario you had to respond to or something?
I heard for l6 sdm also we need to submit a sample
Amazon ghosted me after the writing exercise, non engineering position ~4 years ago.
Were u rejected after the loop interview or before?
Got rejected after 7th interview. I sent the exercise just after onsite. (I had two follow up interviews after on-site)
Do you know who's the customer in your essay?
Not at all
That's why you failed, they want to see Customer Obsession
If you failed the excercise you wouldn't have been invited to the actual interviews. And you shouldn't try judging how you did, that's not a good way of measuring your performance.
I just got the feeling based on interviewers’ comments, because obviously I didn’t do well since I got rejected. As I mentioned the exercise was required after onsite.
Interviewers are asked to be nice. And maybe you did perform well, but someone else was a better fit. Don't worry about this too much, ask for feedback if you can + if you can reapply and move on.
No