i interviewed for SDE level sort of not disclosed. (alexa) I did super well in sys design. didnt get to finish coding a solution but the guy was from an external team and said i had “very good answers” for the behaviorals. I got nervous on some of the whiteboard coding, but came to solutions. I felt like parts went well, parts didnt go as well but i feel like shit, even though some parts went well. i imagine no one feels good about every part of an interview. i know there are responses other than a flat out reject, what are all of the possibilities that could be the outcome of an amazon interview? recycle? another role?
At Amazon, it's accepted for level you interviewed for, downleved to lower level or straight rejected. If rejected, you can apply after 6 months.
What if I asked, and the recruiter wouldn’t tell me what level it was for? He said “that would be likely based on the sysdesign portion.” Is that even a common response? (Idk if it was SDE1, 2, etc)
If you got a Systems design question, then it was definitely SDE2 or maybe sde3. If you fail systems design (at AWS at least), it instantly becomes a best case scenario of "down-level to SDE1".
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Down-level is pretty much the only other likely non-reject option. But even if rejected, another recruiter could ignore the recommended wait time and pull your details from the system for another interview in few weeks/months.
I think the wait time is not a recommendation but a requirement.
I beg to differ. Here're things I've observed first hand: * I've seen different recommendations ranging from 6 months to 2 years wait time depending on how badly the candidate failed the onsite. * I've seen a hiring manager look up a candidate's past performance and concluded that the interviewer asked a nonsensical question. So we ignored all the conclusions reached in that loop, invited the candidate to our onsite, and ended up making an offer. * I've seen a HM tell an interviewer: I don't agree with your phone screen reject. Go back and interview the candidate again. * I've seen a recruiter ask me: although the candidate failed the online assessment, do you think that was a fair OA question? Should we give them another chance? * I've seen multiple external candidates interview with two orgs at once (e.g., Alexa and AWS) and end up with a reject from 1 org and an offer from the other org. The org making the offer obviously doesn't care about the reject/recycle/wait-time recommendation of the 2nd org. My point is that at Amazon, Hiring managers have a lot of autonomy to override whatever "requirement", hence I've concluded they're recommendations at best.