Amazon Lab126 Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

Cupertino, CAPosted Jan 2013 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I had a phone call with the hiring manager first, and that led to a face-to-face interview.

The day of the onsite was a disaster for me—not because of one huge technical miss, but because the interviewers themselves seemed unprepared in how to run the conversation.

The first person couldn’t frame questions in a way that made my answers easy to build on. The second asked me a puzzle, and once I couldn’t solve it, they stopped engaging and didn’t really continue the process from there.

By the end, the whole experience felt like it hinged on immediate correctness rather than showing how I think or how I handle partial progress. I didn’t get an offer, and I mostly felt thrown off by

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