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When I interviewed at Amazon last time, I paused all my other work, even my full time job, to focus on it. Wasn't well treated at interview day (people forgot
by speeder 6y ago
When I interviewed at Amazon last time, I paused all my other work, even my full time job, to focus on it.
Wasn't well treated at interview day (people forgot me in a room for several hours for example, also had interviewers arrive late, among other issues), and probably didn't pass because there was some questions about LP that I couldn't answer, basically all interviewers without exception asked the same question on how I handled an issue in a large team, except I never worked in a large team, whenever I told them that, they would ask the same question, but worded differently.
It became obvious to me that I should have lied, should have written before going to the interview some fictional stories that I could use to answer the LP questions.
- VRay 6y agoAmazon's a fucking pit of vipers anyway, dude, you're better off. If your potential future teammates were so busy putting out fires that they couldn't meet up with you on time, that team was probably in bad shape too
- coffeefirst 6y agoWeird but fascinating. That question suggests: 1. They have a lot of problems with people who come and can't get stuff done in a giant organization 2. They don't try to teach newcomers how to get stuff done in a giant organization. Which would be the obvious answer to those problems. I'm admittedly stretching a little, but I find more often than not the kinds of questions people ask tell you a lot about what they're trying to select for. (Or, for a lot of orgs, that they have no idea what they're trying to select for.)