I had an interview with Amazon for a SDE2 position. Same usual process as it consists of 4 coding rounds and 1 behav round. Things really went well and I honestly thought I'd get an offer. Manager and Sr. engineers seem happy with my answers. However, I received a call from the recruiter saying that it was a "no". He also said that unfortunately it's their policy that they are not allowed to share the feedback. I don't understand why they are not supposed to share feedback. How can one learn from one's mistakes if they don't know what did go well and what didn't? What's stopping them to give feedbacks to interviewees? #amazon #interview
Because then you would game the interview in six months (or straight up lie) just to tell them what they want to hear.
Every interview question is different. What makes you say interviewees can fake it by telling what they want to hear.
Let's say you have terrible variable names and you failed because of that. You can "fix" for the interview it without actually writing clean code naturally when you work. We'd be rating your ability to make us happy, not your historical/natural coding clarity. We don't want that. Or let's say you failed hard on Earn Trust. We don't want you to spend 6 months cajoling everyone around just to get into Amazon. You should be able to identify yourself. I'm not saying you can't benefit from feedback, I'm saying is possible it's gamed and leads to hiring more people who actually don't fit.
I had the exact same situation happen to me a week ago. It was pretty frustrating. Is this a common occurrence?
Supply and demand. Amazon is one of the few companies hiring currently, so they became picky. Many laid off folks are in the job market.
Atleast they respond with a Reject. Imagine interviewing at a company and spending 6 hours interviewing and then the recruiter ghosts you. Cough Cou..ebay..gh Cough
Looks like I'll get a rejection too. I actually complained that I couldn't take an interview properly because the interviewer was Chinese origin and was struggling to communicate in english. They said we'll take 2 yes out of 3. They been ignoring ever since.
Candidate can sue / harass / argue saying “i answered correctly “ etc. also amazon dont give a fck
Bar became hire during Covid