<story><title>&apos;Clean your desk&apos;: My Amazon interview experience</title><url>http://shivankaul.com/blog/2016/12/07/clean-your-desk-yet-another-amazon-interview-experience.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amzn-throw</author><text>Can you share some details about why you found it so frustrating?  Believe it or not, most software devs at Amazon REALLY CARE about interviewing, are happy here, and want to find others too.&lt;p&gt;We are taught in an internal interviewing class (which is not mandatory unfortunately) that making sure the candidate has a great experience is just as important as getting good data on the candidate.</text></item><item><author>leeter</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m glad you&amp;#x27;re fixing it, but having been through a second round interview where I was flown out to Amazon in Seattle. I will still never interview with Amazon again. It was the second most frustrating interview I&amp;#x27;ve ever been in. It was clear to me that 4 of my interviewers had no intention of even considering me.&lt;p&gt;Side note: The most frustrating interview I&amp;#x27;ve ever had was with Microsoft Boulder: they just flat out insulted me in the interview and questioned why anyone would hire me based on not getting their trick question. That said my interviews with Microsoft Redmond were lovely.</text></item><item><author>amzn-throw</author><text>Amazon SDE here. The SDES internally are PISSED about all of this, and I assure you many people are escalating with HR to have this new ProctorU-based interviewing process changed ASAP.&lt;p&gt;edit: I don&amp;#x27;t know if there&amp;#x27;ll be an official announcement, but as of right now we&amp;#x27;re pulling usage of ProctorU for intern loops.&lt;p&gt;For those asking how this happened, you simply do not understand the THOUSANDS of interns Amazon needs to interview every year over a couple of week period.  It&amp;#x27;s a nightmare to scale.  So, someone in HR thought they&amp;#x27;d show some bias for action. Oops.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rublev</author><text>&amp;gt;We are taught in an internal interviewing class (which is not mandatory unfortunately) that making sure the candidate has a great experience is just as important as getting good data on the candidate.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s funny. I don&amp;#x27;t know a single person who enjoyed interviewing at Amazon, and the one guy that did who got in quit a few weeks later and still won&amp;#x27;t stop talking about how bad it was until he&amp;#x27;s blue in the face. It was such a bad experience it seems to have partially fused with his identity!&lt;p&gt;Seems like every once in awhile there&amp;#x27;s some article taking a crap on Amazon, and then these types of green comments coming to the rescue.</text></comment>
<story><title>&apos;Clean your desk&apos;: My Amazon interview experience</title><url>http://shivankaul.com/blog/2016/12/07/clean-your-desk-yet-another-amazon-interview-experience.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amzn-throw</author><text>Can you share some details about why you found it so frustrating?  Believe it or not, most software devs at Amazon REALLY CARE about interviewing, are happy here, and want to find others too.&lt;p&gt;We are taught in an internal interviewing class (which is not mandatory unfortunately) that making sure the candidate has a great experience is just as important as getting good data on the candidate.</text></item><item><author>leeter</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m glad you&amp;#x27;re fixing it, but having been through a second round interview where I was flown out to Amazon in Seattle. I will still never interview with Amazon again. It was the second most frustrating interview I&amp;#x27;ve ever been in. It was clear to me that 4 of my interviewers had no intention of even considering me.&lt;p&gt;Side note: The most frustrating interview I&amp;#x27;ve ever had was with Microsoft Boulder: they just flat out insulted me in the interview and questioned why anyone would hire me based on not getting their trick question. That said my interviews with Microsoft Redmond were lovely.</text></item><item><author>amzn-throw</author><text>Amazon SDE here. The SDES internally are PISSED about all of this, and I assure you many people are escalating with HR to have this new ProctorU-based interviewing process changed ASAP.&lt;p&gt;edit: I don&amp;#x27;t know if there&amp;#x27;ll be an official announcement, but as of right now we&amp;#x27;re pulling usage of ProctorU for intern loops.&lt;p&gt;For those asking how this happened, you simply do not understand the THOUSANDS of interns Amazon needs to interview every year over a couple of week period.  It&amp;#x27;s a nightmare to scale.  So, someone in HR thought they&amp;#x27;d show some bias for action. Oops.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tubasaur</author><text>Not mandatory?  In my time at Lab126 (a couple of years ago now), you &lt;i&gt;had&lt;/i&gt; to take Making Great Hiring Decisions before you were ever included on an interview loop.</text></comment>