Me postulé a través de una recomendación de un empleado. El proceso tomó 2 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Amazon (Seattle, WA) en oct 2017
Entrevista
Phone call with Director. Went so well ,they skipped a follow up screen to fly me up. Before flying up was asked to write an 3-4 page essay. The first interviewer was 20 minutes late. Yeah, I sat waiting for 20 minutes. He didn't seem prepared and didn't take any notes on his laptop, asked me the questions but seemed to be checking his email.
Was taken to the wrong room then twice. Had someone interview me I could barely understand his English, but worked through it. Then to a video call with a Director from NY. I thought this was a test to see how I'd handle someone being extremely rude and off putting, because he was intolerable but I took it. This continued through the day.
At every point, I asked every interviewer their previous job, and background. Most had less experience than I did, maybe one was comparable and he was the Director. It all felt good, but honestly the vibe there was pretty bad. I know it's meant to be impartial but it isn't. Don't fool yourself.
So 1 week goes by, and I finally email them and get a "we said no but we can't say why". So, for a "customer driven company" to waste so much time of candidates and not way "why" is insulting our entire industry. And, further it's just not true. Former friends at Amazon say that is just a BS line and I agree. 2 years ago, I interviewed for a different role and had TWO follow up calls on the reasons why which were technical based.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Tell me about a time when....(you wasted a ton of time interviewing for a heartless company).
Phone screen, 5 1 hour interviews for loop
Each hour was dedicated to 2 LPs. System design was more collaborative than i anticipated which was a pleasant surprise. The phone screen mostly focused on my previous experiences
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Standard LP based scenarios, system design was actual system the team owns
Me postulé a través de una recomendación de un empleado. El proceso tomó 2 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Amazon (Tokio) en feb 2026
Entrevista
The interview process is straightforward but intense.
First interview was with another Software Dev Manager in the same team. After that the famous loop interview where I had to take 5 interviews in a row over two days ( using paid holidays at work ). Recruiter gave a lot of information about possible questions and helped with materials. However, I had to use same stories few times as the different interviewers asked same questions few times.
Everything is okay, I had a good time during the interviews and it was a good exercise. However, I simply do not understand why they have to call to reject? I am not a customer to be obsessed with. A straight cut rejection via email works better than taking time out of my busy schedule.
If they used this time to share some feedback, that would be useful. If they do not share any reason why I have to continue formal small talk just to get the rejection on my face?
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Pregunta 1
A time you were driving toward a goal and realized more than halfway in that it may not be the best goal.
Had 1 round of System design interview. I thought the interview went ok, if not bad, it went decently well. Received a rejection response, while asking to apply 6 months later.
