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I'm happy that Amazon have a horrible leetcode style interview practice. In my interview I had to design an algorithm to detect certain combinations of fruit an
by willtemperley 2y ago
I'm happy that Amazon have a horrible leetcode style interview practice. In my interview I had to design an algorithm to detect certain combinations of fruit and veg bought from Amazon fresh, which would trigger fruit-machine style payouts. If I hadn't said "f this" and did something that actually interests me, I would probably have a huge mortgage sitting in rainy ol Blighty designing user hostile experiences like Prime cancellation. I'm poorer, happier, healthier and mentally iron-clad doing my own thing, making just enough money and travelling to where life has a reasonable cost.
- was_in_amazon 2y agoEx Amazon here. I never heard of leetcode style interviews at Amazon.
- willtemperley 2y agoI would also be a lot richer if I was able to create BS of this magnitude but I can't. Here's the practice test they gave me: https://www.hackerrank.com/test/63ek10mhil5/60d306ab105867d80fca544041154273 https://www.hackerrank.com/test/63ek10mhil5/60d306ab105867d8...
- was_in_amazon 2y agoSo what? The log parsing thing is a reasonable question, not some obscure bitshift find-a-binary-paindrome hack.
- willtemperley 2y agoThe so-what was just to confirm that Amazon do leetcode interviews, contrary to your statement.
- was_in_amazon 2y agoIf you call any coding test "leetcode like interviews" then YES
- willtemperley 2y agoYou're slowly getting it
- johnnyanmac 2y agoI'd consider - a coding test in a short time frame (30-90 minutes) - implementing some singular function that expects a singular answer - expecting time/space complexity optimizations, often those not naively thought about in said short time frame - in synthesized test environments (as opposed to something representing a real world environment) to fall under "leetcode like interviews". Log parsing can fall into either camp depending on the prompt. Once it's asking you something esoteric like to locate a timestamp in Log(N) time it starts to fall into Leetcode territory.
- was_in_amazon 2y agoThen I was right. And it seems there are a lot of sour grapes in this thread...
- upmind 2y agoAs someone who's interviewed there and received offer (though for internship), for entry positions, internships + their lowest level of engineer (don't recall the name), I can confidently tell you they mainly use leetcode with some Amazon principle questions too
- Der_Einzige 2y agoI literally interview on purpose with Amazon to waste their time (revenge for them mistreating my partner). After at least 10 full onsites, I can tell you that Amazon uses leetcode style interviews in every single one of those onsites. Feels nice to come into their stupid contrived behaviorals and not even care about the “Star” method or their stupid leadership principals. I even straight up told them in one interview that their principals were stupid and victim blaming. I’m shocked that they haven’t blacklisted me yet - and doing so would be nice because Amazon recruiter spam is actually quite annoying.
- was_in_amazon 2y agoI was in Amazon years ago and there wasn't a standardized set of questions. At the time I never heard of teams using leetcode style questions - things went downhill I guess.
- ojhughes 2y ago> I would probably have a huge mortgage sitting in rainy ol Blighty Feeling a bit triggered by this - but also curious how you escaped :)
- willtemperley 2y agoHaha it's a lot easier than people imagine - if you have no dependents, leave your stuff in storage or with your mum and get on a plane with some clothes, a laptop and £15k income or savings per year. Personally I bring climbing gear too. 500 quid a month gets you an epic condo in SE Asia with 500Mbps symmetric (I'm talking city centre with rooftop infinity pool). Visas can be complicated but it's far easier here than Europe. They only managed to destroy our freedom of movement in Europe, not the rest of the world.