Amazon Lab126 Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Neutral

Posted Jan 2012 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I got contacted by a recruiter for a position I hadn’t applied for, but I agreed to schedule.

The hiring manager phone interview felt standard and only lasted about thirty minutes, focused on my background with a few questions, and then I was scheduled for an onsite the following week.

On the onsite, I did one-on-one interviews with six different individuals across the day, from 10 AM to 4 PM. It was a long stretch, and even with lunch provided, it was hard to actually eat because the schedule and interviews kept pulling me away.

I didn’t get an offer. My honest reflection was that the intensity came from how continuous it all was—by the end, the day itself felt like the real

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