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At least they give you some feedback in the end. I had the experience to be rejected after an onsite interview at Amazon, and they did not take the time to give

by yoandy 9y ago

At least they give you some feedback in the end. I had the experience to be rejected after an onsite interview at Amazon, and they did not take the time to give a word of feedback, after I even asked for it. I see the past interviews were of great help to you to finally get the position at Amazon. I am looking forward to read your third post. Complimenti collega!

bmpafa 9y ago
I had the same experience with Amazon--dinged with no feedback. Normally I'm a sucker for irony, but when they sent me an auto email a few weeks later asking _me_ for feedback (ie, a survey on the hiring process), I didn't find it immediately funny.
- Terr_ 9y ago
  Bonus annoyance: After rejection, get 15 contacts from Amazon recruiters in the next 5 months. Those made me wonder if it wasn't for the best.
  - hocuspocus 9y ago
    All from uncoordinated business divisions! And I've heard it also happens when you got an offer (while waiting for your visa/relocation). I'm not hating on Amazon but their recruiting process is by far the sloppiest of all big tech companies.
akinalci 9y ago
No feedback has been the norm, in my experience. Can be frustrating when the company asks you to invest 4+ weeks on phone screens, take-home projects, and in-person interviews, and then emails you a form letter rejection and cuts contact.
gil_vegliach 9y ago
Grazie :) Getting zero feedback sucks, but as far as I understand it, this is a way to cover their asses from lawsuits. Basically, if you don't get hired, and x gets hired, and you happen to know that your feedbacks were similar, then you could claim that you have been discriminated on. This is especially true if, say, you are black and x is white, or similar.
Terr_ 9y ago
I never got any feedback from a Google onsite, is that new?
- ma2rten 9y ago
  This should never ever happen. How long ago was this? I work at Google. I can try to follow up for you.
  - poikniok 9y ago
    Are you sure about this? I believe for liability reasons no feedback should ever be given, aside from the generic "you were very good / very close" just to make people feel better about themselves.
  - Terr_ 9y ago
    If you mean communication over the process, don't worry, I got the "regretfully decline to proceed"-type phone call afterwards. What I meant is that I can't recall any feedback like "personable, but algorithms needs work" or "code too messy" or "couldn't answer domain questions" etc. Just a general "sorry, please try again later." To be fair, this was a verbal conversation from 7 months ago, so it may be there was something like that but I was too preoccupied with the bad news to write it down.
    - ma2rten 9y ago
      I see. I misread your comment, because there was another comment which said they never heard back from Google after their onsite. In that case it's true, you generally don't get any feedback after you interview at big tech companies. I would recommend to do a mock interview to prepare and get honest feedback.
    - joshvm 9y ago
      I did get (prompt) feedback. I got an initial email with the rejection, and my recruiter scheduled a follow up call. I wasn't given anything specific, but I was given fairly strong hints like "I think you know that the 3rd and 5th interviews were your best". I was told that they thought my communication was clear, and that while they didn't have any issues with my code, I could have been faster and a bit more fluent converting my solutions into code. Probably boils down to what your recruiter is willing to give you, and how much you can correlate what they say to your interviews. All in all a pleasant experience, though the luck of the draw part became very obvious. Were I to go for it again, I know exactly how I'd prepare for it. The key (in my experience) is to be able to hammer out that first coding problem in under 25 minutes. If you get to the 'second stage' where you're chatting to your interviewer and trying some additional toy problems, you're doing well.

by yoandy 9y ago

bmpafa 9y ago

I had the same experience with Amazon--dinged with no feedback. Normally I'm a sucker for irony, but when they sent me an auto email a few weeks later asking _me_ for feedback (ie, a survey on the hiring process), I didn't find it immediately funny.

Terr_ 9y ago
Bonus annoyance: After rejection, get 15 contacts from Amazon recruiters in the next 5 months. Those made me wonder if it wasn't for the best.
- hocuspocus 9y ago
  All from uncoordinated business divisions! And I've heard it also happens when you got an offer (while waiting for your visa/relocation). I'm not hating on Amazon but their recruiting process is by far the sloppiest of all big tech companies.

akinalci 9y ago

No feedback has been the norm, in my experience. Can be frustrating when the company asks you to invest 4+ weeks on phone screens, take-home projects, and in-person interviews, and then emails you a form letter rejection and cuts contact.

gil_vegliach 9y ago

Grazie :) Getting zero feedback sucks, but as far as I understand it, this is a way to cover their asses from lawsuits. Basically, if you don't get hired, and x gets hired, and you happen to know that your feedbacks were similar, then you could claim that you have been discriminated on. This is especially true if, say, you are black and x is white, or similar.

Terr_ 9y ago

I never got any feedback from a Google onsite, is that new?

ma2rten 9y ago
This should never ever happen. How long ago was this? I work at Google. I can try to follow up for you.
- poikniok 9y ago
  Are you sure about this? I believe for liability reasons no feedback should ever be given, aside from the generic "you were very good / very close" just to make people feel better about themselves.
- Terr_ 9y ago
  If you mean communication over the process, don't worry, I got the "regretfully decline to proceed"-type phone call afterwards. What I meant is that I can't recall any feedback like "personable, but algorithms needs work" or "code too messy" or "couldn't answer domain questions" etc. Just a general "sorry, please try again later." To be fair, this was a verbal conversation from 7 months ago, so it may be there was something like that but I was too preoccupied with the bad news to write it down.
  - ma2rten 9y ago
    I see. I misread your comment, because there was another comment which said they never heard back from Google after their onsite. In that case it's true, you generally don't get any feedback after you interview at big tech companies. I would recommend to do a mock interview to prepare and get honest feedback.
  - joshvm 9y ago
    I did get (prompt) feedback. I got an initial email with the rejection, and my recruiter scheduled a follow up call. I wasn't given anything specific, but I was given fairly strong hints like "I think you know that the 3rd and 5th interviews were your best". I was told that they thought my communication was clear, and that while they didn't have any issues with my code, I could have been faster and a bit more fluent converting my solutions into code. Probably boils down to what your recruiter is willing to give you, and how much you can correlate what they say to your interviews. All in all a pleasant experience, though the luck of the draw part became very obvious. Were I to go for it again, I know exactly how I'd prepare for it. The key (in my experience) is to be able to hammer out that first coding problem in under 25 minutes. If you get to the 'second stage' where you're chatting to your interviewer and trying some additional toy problems, you're doing well.