I have done a round one interview and I don’t see how it can be interpreted to do anything but turn away people with a brain.
Memorize Amazon’s insane company values and relate your resume experience to it. And that I mean every single bullet point.
Interviewers were all run by robotic people. Coding test had zero flexibility, you had to just write code in a special barebones text editor that had zero feedback besides pass/fail.
You’d have to solely care about Amazon RSUs to consider that job. They are self-selecting for the worst kinds of candidates.
The dumb thing is that it should be a job that doesn’t burn people out because they basically own the market and haven’t needed to do any sort of innovation. Amazon’s corporate culture just has a burnout fetish.
I interviewed in 2015. The recruiter told me to read the Amazon Leadership Principles, but I thought it was ridiculous to prep for something so specific to a single company, especially as I was interviewing at other companies too.
I got the job, and I think being natural helped. I've interviewed thousands of people at Amazon since, and too many people just say the buzz words with no meat, and it gets them nowhere i.e. I showed customer obsession when I.....(and then gives a bad example)
I interviewed much later and there was definitely no getting around it, the interviewer refused to let me go on further without hitting every single value in the list and talking about a unique example of my experience for each value.
One entire experience story/project example per value, completely insane cult behavior. I felt like I was interviewing for Scientology.
Memorize Amazon’s insane company values and relate your resume experience to it. And that I mean every single bullet point.
Interviewers were all run by robotic people. Coding test had zero flexibility, you had to just write code in a special barebones text editor that had zero feedback besides pass/fail.
You’d have to solely care about Amazon RSUs to consider that job. They are self-selecting for the worst kinds of candidates.
The dumb thing is that it should be a job that doesn’t burn people out because they basically own the market and haven’t needed to do any sort of innovation. Amazon’s corporate culture just has a burnout fetish.