I recently had an on-site with Amazon and the team rejected me. The recruiter asked me to apply after 1 year. Does that mean my performance was too bad?
It was obviously bad. If it was good you’d have been hired. :/
Yeah I got it. I was worried if this interview might jeopardize my future chances.
Not really, I think you would have a fayr chance after 1 year. Take this as a valuable feedback and get better at storytelling. Learn & live the values because the same skillset /similar will be useful at Google interviews & many other.
Thanks a lot for the help. Appreciate your advice. I will try to work on it.
Yes. It's so bad that Bezos himself placed an order to ban you for a year.
Doesn't mean it was THAT bad, you just didn't meet expectations this time around. If you got any feedback, work on that and then some, then try again next year. I didn't make FAANG my first time but they reached out the following year to retry and I made it (IBM is my old joint). Good luck, be patient and keep trying, it's all part of the process!
Thanks for your time and suggestion. I need to strategize as you said.
Honestly, doesn’t mean anything. You know how you did it. Identify and Accept your weaknesses and work on them.
The exactly same thing happened to me. For me I think it's the leadership principles part because I did not bad in the technical part.
I believe Amazon gives the chance to reapply every 6 months. Are you sure they told you to wait for 1 year?
Btw noone would look bad at you if you reapply after 1y, just get more experience in your portfolio and do interview prep
Thanks a lot I will definitely work on that.
Many companies have a “cool-off” period for people who fail their interview (which is what happened to you in this case). This is to avoid the company wasting time interviewing someone again too soon without giving them a chance to “get additional experience & grow”. Also, Amazon hiring managers usually get lots of headcount freed up at Year-end and mid-year, either from budgeting or attrition reasons.
To put it bluntly, yes, it was terrible. Likely you messed up on the leadership principles, not the skillset (or a mix, but values/leadership is the major issue).
Thanks a lot. So after 1 year is it difficult to get a call once again.
Leadership principles? What is that?