Rejected in Amazon SDE III interview

Apr 27 11 Comments

I thought I did great in LPs but when I really thought deep I never gave dollar value , number of orders impacted , number of customers impacted. I think I lack Articulation skills. How everyone learning articulation skill and story telling , impressing with story skills ? Need help on this to improve myself

I felt Most of the YouTube videos or online resources on LP are not good for engineering stories.

TC : 160k
YOE: 16 ( not sure what I learned these many years 🤔)

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  • Google / Eng
    ABC-CEO

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    ABC-CEO
    Just come up with some projection (aka made-up) to declare success. They do that all the time at Amazon to get promoted for launching new features, then leave the team to avoid facing reality.

    Were you at HD when they let people freely print contractor vouchers online, worth $50 each? That was an awesome bug.
    Apr 27 3
    • Oh my God amazing one - Google ABC-CEO👍
      Apr 27
    • Google / Eng
      ABC-CEO

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      ABC-CEO
      Use STAR format, and the story must be about what you *do* for the customers. While it may be tempting to explain everything, move fast to the Action and Results and spend more time explaining your decision making and challenges. Focus on one or two angles that address the question. The same story from a different angle can address another LP.
      Apr 27
  • UBS
    ib007

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    ib007
    What about Tech rounds, I guess there aren’t enough signals at least for downlevelling you to SDE 2
    Apr 27 3
    • UBS
      ib007

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      ib007
      Hm. One bad coding would have resulted in down level. Probably system design didn’t go well. Have you had killed this round, you might have got sde 3 itself.Retrospect all the rounds and take it forward.
      Apr 27
    • May be lack of experience in Faang kind of interviews .. I was feeling I did good but I might have done bad in system design also .. this is my first Faang onsite , I attend Microsoft onsite recently got rejected there as well
      Apr 27
  • Can any Amazon fellows share what story you feel is great in any example scenarios?
    Apr 27 2
    • Don’t look for templates. Instead try to quantify how much your solution has impacted. Choose a metric which is good for your work. Validate current value with prior. Say the improvements in interviews. Whether you are building features and or scaling system you will always have this number.
      Apr 27
    • Thank for reply I am not looking for template , I want to understand how others are telling stories are successful.
      Apr 27