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There is nothing cultish about the way Amazon interviews. If you are a good engineer with a relevant background who can speak english you will have no problem p
by notyourwork 5y ago
There is nothing cultish about the way Amazon interviews. If you are a good engineer with a relevant background who can speak english you will have no problem passing these interviews. I'm not sure why you are framing it as cultish.
- metadat 5y agoNative English speaker here. I was denied for unspecified reasons a couple years ago. At the time it was perplexing, as I had pretty good answers for all their questions. Now I work at one of the slightly more sane FANMAG (to include $ms) companies. Pretty sure I dodged a bullet, maybe the engineering manager spared me because he liked me more than I realized.
- bogomipz 5y agoI would be curious to know which one is considered more sane these days. I feel like I've heard enough negative things about the culture at all of them at this point.
- metadat 5y agoPresently, Apple, Microsoft, Oracle can all be okay as an employee IME. Depends entirely on the division and team you're joining. Ones I'd never consider, even for a cushy VP role- FB, Goggle. Ymmv.
- jnwatson 5y agoI interviewed with AWS about 7 months ago and got an offer. I had multiple recruiters emphasize the LP stuff. I prepared, and there’s no way I would have passed without that preparation. In my experience, they also give the toughest programming questions. It is a lot of prep overall.
- AitchEmArsey 5y agoThat does not match up with my own experience at all. Maybe the service teams are less heavy on LPs due to not being customer-facing?
- notyourwork 5y agoWhat doesn't match up?