Amazon Lab126 Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

Sunnyvale, CAPosted Jun 2020 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I applied online and about a week later an Amazon recruiter contacted me to set up a technical phone interview.

She told me to expect multiple parts—technical, coding, and behavioral—and I spent a lot of time preparing for coding and the leadership principles style of behavioral questions.

On interview day, though, it turned into something different. The hiring manager only asked me technical questions and didn’t go into behavioral at all. I thought I answered well given that my experience wasn’t perfectly aligned to what the role seemed to need, but the format mismatch still made me feel like my preparation time didn’t fully translate into what I actually got.

Two days later I received a rejection

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