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MXda85

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MXda85
Mar 16, 2020 26 Comments

I did my Chime onsite interview for Amazon SDE3. Got reply today where the recruiter said that the team had good feedback for me and she hoped they would hire me, but they decided to go in another direction. She wrote 3 lines detailing the good feedback.
What the heck does that mean?
Is this anything related to Covid or plain simple rejection? I had done really good in all interviews. I would normally take this as rejection but her email repeatedly putting good feedback got me confused. She even apologized at end of email.
#confused

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  • IBM
    duden1

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    duden1
    Sounds like they liked you but will either hire someone else or decided not to hire for now
    Mar 16, 2020 9
    • Grab
      bplus

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      bplus
      @Mxda85 I know your feeling, but I think they cannot give you anything useful. Continue to improve urself and one day, when looking back, you will understand why you failed.
      Mar 16, 2020
    • IBM
      duden1

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      duden1
      @bplus you’re over complicating this. We are not communicating a loved one has passed away here, it’s just the result of a hiring process. Just factually stating what actually happened is the recruiter’s job, no need for a soup opera situation. If the recruiter had done that in the first place, we wouldn’t have a confused OP asking questions here
      Mar 17, 2020
  • Amazon
    AmazianSrc

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    AmazianSrc
    It’s all speculation here but as far as the decision goes, it’s either an ‘inclined’ or ‘not inclined’ to hire decision, and yours was ‘not inclined.’ If it was inclined and they didn’t have room, you’d be speaking with a different hiring manager.

    The recruiter is shitty for confusing you with a mixed feedback - ask how long until you can re-interview, and if they say anything less than 12 months, it verifies that it was a ‘not inclined’ overall decision, but it was a close call - this happens a lot when candidates show conflicting data points (i.e. 3 people were inclined but 2 people were not inclined) and the debrief went in a ‘not inclined’ direction for a million reasons, the main one being that no one felt compelled enough to convince the naysayers that you must be hired. The recruiter’s just trying to (ineffectively) hint that it was a close call & that you should try again (trying to keep you in their pipeline), cuz when it’s a close call, you could yield a positive outcome with a different set of interviewers.
    Mar 16, 2020 3
    • Walmart
      MXda85

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      MXda85
      OP
      Okay that makes sense. So basically I still need to work on something to make sure I got no naysayers next time. Got it, thanks!

      As far as waiting period is considered, I havent asked her. But Amazon recruiters as well as hiring mgrs keep reaching me out every 3 months for the past 2 years.

      Even now, I wasnt looking for a change. But just gave one phone interview to see if I am rusty or good. I cleared the phone interview but I declined their onsite since it turned out to be Mobile dev team. Thats when I was patched to another recruiter who forwarded me to Amazon AI team - I did direct onsite Chime for them.

      There I got this feedback.
      Mar 16, 2020
    • Walmart
      MXda85

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      MXda85
      OP
      I will ask recruiter about wait period.
      Mar 16, 2020
  • Costco
    NoGrazing

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    NoGrazing
    Often they interview outside so they can say they did before handing it to someone inside. They don’t give a damn if they waste your time. I’ve got “good”‘feedback twice and no hire. Had manager friend check reqs and it went internal even with him as a reference. I get an email once every two months or so from a Amazon recruiter asking me if I am interested - nope... stop wasting my damn time. Plus their base salary is only 160k max..
    Mar 16, 2020 2
  • New
    jifh78

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    jifh78
    Same with me. I pushed and have a call with the recruiter tomorrow. Gonna pry more details.
    Mar 16, 2020 2
  • Cerner
    mGoJ42

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    mGoJ42
    Does chime has text editor where you can code or you have you have explain the approach to solve a problem?
    May 13, 2020 1