Timeline

[cobalt thistle]

Sorry to hear that.
I hope something else comes up for you. 🙏
How was your overall interview timeline?

[steel agate]

Applied in May
Then reapplied (w same email) on Jul 7
Got OA Aug 12
Took OA Aug 17
Asked to schedule interview on Aug 21
Interview scheduled on Aug 22
Had interview on Aug 29
Rejected today 9/4

[reef panther]

how were your interview rounds?

[steel agate]

first round was fully behavioral - it went p well imo and we had a good convo afterwards
Second round was leetcode, it went super well, i got twosum and 3sum so solved both optimally and brute force and he said i did rlly well
Third round i did well on the behavioral but the OOD fucked me up, so i still got code down/talked through my thinking but he had some followups for me after which i answered

[jaunty niche]

damn 😔

did you solve it brute force first and then optimally?

[halcyon heart]

what are the questions in OOD like?

[halcyon heart]

what is the role? are u international?

[steel agate]

i told him brute force and optimal solutions i was thinking of and he wanted me to code up brute force

[steel agate]

design the linux find command

[steel agate]

Fungible SDE 1, USA

[past dune]

Keep your head up

[past dune]

Seems like OOD went well if you were able to code it up and answered the follow ups. Did you have to use a lot of hints?

[steel agate]

no, the interviewer for OOD did not talk to me during the coding portion, he turned his camera off and told me to just do it

so i was allowed to ask clarificaiton questions but not hints

[past dune]

that’s pretty crazy

[cursive goblet]

what the fuck

that’s a crazy OOD question 😢

[jaunty niche]

turned his camera off is crazy

[steel agate]

its actually p popular, but i just didnt prep for it bc it seemed like everyone this year was getting parking garage, but yea, for interview 3, interviewer showed up about 5 mins late + 5 mins to prep his shit or whatever, then asked me about 20 mins LP, then for coding said hes gon mute mic and turn camera off while i code, he gave me about 20 mins, then asked me some follow up questions and stuff

[tidal olive]

lmao i literally just did the linux find command interview and i bombed it

[quasi hull]

bro my 2nd interviewer and my 3rd interviewer never even showed up

today and no not yet, so weird never experienced anything like this ever before at any other company really giving me a bad impression of amazon lowk

[tired totem]

Damn that sucks. What do you guys think I should focus on to prepare?

[steel agate]

rippp

[steel agate]

amazon don't got the greatest rep, idgaf about amazon i just wanna work already and i felt i did rlly good so i was excited

[cursive goblet]

do u have any other options @steel agate

[steel agate]

i have a phone screen w a stealth startup next Thurs, and i actually have had an offer w/ the DoD for almost a year now, but have not got anywhere closed to getting my clearance so idk the timeline on that

[cursive goblet]

yeah heard that’s an arduous process

[steel agate]

yea

what's worse is that amazon pay be double than the govt pay so

tht kinda hurts

[cursive goblet]

yeah that’s tuff

[steel agate]

but govt wlb is 10x better so

[cursive goblet]

ye fs

u can prolly transition to palantir or anduril or something daily easily tho . depending on what ur working on lol

[steel agate]

yea i just mainly don't wanna move to east coast

idrc about pay

[jaunty niche]

what will happen then? reschedule interview or what

[quasi hull]

idek im just waiting for now

[dry hazel]

I found you.

[jaunty niche]

did u email anyone

[quasi hull]

yeah recruiting email no response

[jaunty niche]

shoot

[jaunty niche]

its over for me

[dry hazel]

mwhahah

[hallow escarp]

How did you reapply with the same email? Just curious!

[quasi hull]

yeah recruiting coordinater reached out after I followed up again they didn't even say sorry or nothing, lowk even if i pass dunno if imma work there

[jaunty niche]

update me what happens!

what did the coordinator even say then?

[river flicker]

Hey Adarsh, what exaclty in linux find were you asked to implement? did you have to go into files/directories or just figuring out the pattern for conditions(and/or)?

[steel agate]

both