Amazon Lab126 Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

Posted Oct 2012 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I was invited to on-campus interviews where they were bringing in many candidates, not just for software but also hardware and other tracks.

I interviewed in a large room with everyone else, and it was genuinely odd—people could hear what I said to my interviewer and vice versa.

I spoke with three engineers. The questions weren’t hard, but the interviewers didn’t really connect the questions to anything they worked on day-to-day, which made the sessions feel a bit detached. Still, I thought I did well enough to be asked for one last phone interview.

Even with that follow-up, I didn’t get an offer, and they never really explained why. The biggest factor that stayed with me was the distracting setup in the shared

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