I have worked in few places (FAANG and non faang) and had interviews with many places, some successful some not. Offers from Microsoft, LinkedIn, Amazon, Facebook, twitter, Walmart, instacart, Etsy, wayfair, No offers from Netflix, snap, TikTok, cruise, Google etc But my worst experience was with Amazon They try to push you to the edge in the interview by asking too many questions back to back and in rush mode, speaking fast and not letting you think about the problem like you should be a memory machine and answering all the design questions and rest before the question is finished completely. I found it very disrespectful and I think they wanted to showcase their fast culture with all of the stupid LP questions. Too many of those stupid questions. Anyone feeling the same? Or it was just my bad luck with a bad team What was your experience? #tech #amazon #interview #faang
OP, you can report your bad experience to recruiter, if you threaten to file a formal complaint, your recruiter has to do the job to fire back to whoever interviewed you
Sure, as if that ever worked.
No.
2 years back during the hiring spree , one of friends got into Amazon just by doing 1 OA with the help of her roommate. She doesn’t know the basics of CS. I don’t know how she is still working there
What is OA?
Yes. Hardly any time to spend on assessing technical skills as every interview has some lp questions to be answered.
Same experience. Had 7 rounds, failed the interview. Next time, the interview was 3 rounds but I cleared in 2. Wotta experience! I hope I can crack NASA after this 😅
It's a combination of a lot of data points needed and imo inexperienced interviewers. I've seen too many interviewers also unconsciously expressing their insecurities in interviews. The thing is that only experience will make someone a better interviewer. The classes only offer guidelines.
Well I don’t think 🤔 it’s a common problem across all of Amazon. Our process are pretty standardized so that means everyone gets asked similar question and for the most part there’s always follow-up questions. We are trying to get to know who you are! I am glad you feel that it was extensive because that’s means we are doing a great job weeding out those that want to cruise in the company. While I get it interviewing under pressure feel unrealistic it also shows us how you deal with problem given constraints. You will not always have time to think about the situation and we expect you to make a decision with 70% of the information. Good luck though!
My point is interview should aim to evaluate someone's capabilities to think through the problems. by giving the interviewee no time to think you just pick people who memorize problems. LP questions are somehow not informative imo, liers can win and honest people might not have experienced all the cases or don't recall them on spot.
Tell me you encountered Indian interviewers without telling me you encountered Indian interviewers
covid hire here. I literally did 2 OAs and got in lmao
Really?? New college grad or experienced engineer?
I did 1 oa and 1 vo...