Amazon Lab126 QA Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

Posted Sep 2011 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My experience felt dominated by the interviewers’ tone and the mismatch between what I expected and what actually happened.

In my phone screen, it ran so easy that it barely felt like a real test of the role, and I noticed some delays in how the company handled follow-ups—at one point they took about a week to respond. When I finally got to the interview day, I ended up waiting for about an hour before it started.

During the interviews, the questioning didn’t align cleanly with the job description. I was asked coding questions and also characterization-style questions from what seemed to be hardware-focused management. One interviewer didn’t even read my resume, and the conversation became unusually combative—he

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