Interview rejection email from Amazon

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NGyL72
Dec 13, 2020 9 Comments

I received this rejection email from Amazon recruiter:

Thank you very much for taking time out of your day to interview with us. After careful deliberation, the team decided to pursue other candidates at this time. When you interview with Amazon, we look at the comprehensive picture of your career experiences against our Leadership Principles and technical functional areas. So to highlight one or two things would not be fair. But as you could tell from the interview questions, we are looking for specific examples and experiences that you have acquired over the years. The collection (and recollection) of those experiences led us to the decision that we have made. So don’t beat yourself up by thinking that you could have done something different. If I could offer ONE piece of advice, it would be to reflect upon your examples that you gave and how relevant were they to the position in which you were interviewing for. And with that, how detailed did you go and were your examples broad enough or deep enough for the position in which you interviewed? Just food for thought.”

I'm trying to improve myself and do better the next time. Can someone offer me some tips on how to answer Leadership principles next time?

#engineering #swe #amazon #interview

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  • New
    zaddy 🀌

    New

    zaddy 🀌
    Don’t worry, they already found who they intend to pip. You were too good for them.
    Dec 13, 2020 0
  • Yahoo
    wfhfwfhfw

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    PRE
    Wipro Limited
    wfhfwfhfw
    It was just not your day OP. Have some challenging examples that are close to your heart. Of course should be technical. You can start documenting things that you're currently working on. You can start from even today and get polished stories in next 6 months. Continue to be curious at your work. These rejections doesn't define you. I know dumb people in Amazon who will not even crack their own interviews in terms of leadership principles.
    Dec 13, 2020 0
  • IBM
    gtrB43

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    gtrB43
    I got the exactly same reject email lol
    Dec 13, 2020 0
  • Amazon
    gGKK13

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    gGKK13
    It looks like LPs, beyond this it is hard to say without being on the specific loop. The general idea in this and other interviews is to have good specific examples which show you from a good light and exemplify one of the principals. Cut off all the negative examples, don't blame others etc. In the end your interview fate is decided in a 30 min debrief where interviewers go over their assigned competencies and HM decides based on the input whether to hire or not (BR holding veto power). While the process is formalised the error bars are still high and sometimes one or two wrong angles in the response can cut the candidate off.

    Don't despair and if I can give one advice it would be: never stop trying!
    Dec 13, 2020 0
  • Amazon
    nyPn83

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    nyPn83
    "Don't beat yourself up thinking you could have done something different"

    "Here's what you could have done different to probably get the job"

    This recruiter has a PhD in double speak and doesn't know how to turn it off
    Dec 13, 2020 0