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Every interview starts with your interviewer saying "I'm going to enter into the application all of the answers you give. I will still be typing after you are finished with your answer, so don't feel like you need to fill in the silence. I'm not trying to be rude, just thorough." Note: Because of the questions and all of the time they spend typing into their computer, this will feel really rude. It's a lot like having a conversation with a poorly-coded, uninterested chat bot, not like a conversation with a human. The in-person interview is 6 hours of non-stop questions from several different people. My interviewers ranged from interesting people who had to spend all their time typing (slowly) into their application, to a great technical interview who was the most "human" of anyone else while we talked about the technical aspects of the job, to the last guy who literally said "I haven't looked at your resume beyond your last role. Tell me about the rest" and then interrupted me several times to ramble on about himself. After 6 hours, I was led back to the lobby to show myself out. No one said "bye" or "thanks for coming in." I was at least expecting the hiring manager to come out. Nada. Two days later, I got a two line email saying I didn't get the job and it is their policy to not share feedback with any candidate. This was, by far, the worst interview experience I have ever been through. I will give the recruiter her due. She was the most professional person throughout this process, but once I got past that, the interviewers were rude, condescending, and unprofessional.
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Cloud Architect

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Aug 3, 2017

Every interview starts with your interviewer saying "I'm going to enter into the application all of the answers you give. I will still be typing after you are finished with your answer, so don't feel like you need to fill in the silence. I'm not trying to be rude, just thorough." Note: Because of the questions and all of the time they spend typing into their computer, this will feel really rude. It's a lot like having a conversation with a poorly-coded, uninterested chat bot, not like a conversation with a human. The in-person interview is 6 hours of non-stop questions from several different people. My interviewers ranged from interesting people who had to spend all their time typing (slowly) into their application, to a great technical interview who was the most "human" of anyone else while we talked about the technical aspects of the job, to the last guy who literally said "I haven't looked at your resume beyond your last role. Tell me about the rest" and then interrupted me several times to ramble on about himself. After 6 hours, I was led back to the lobby to show myself out. No one said "bye" or "thanks for coming in." I was at least expecting the hiring manager to come out. Nada. Two days later, I got a two line email saying I didn't get the job and it is their policy to not share feedback with any candidate. This was, by far, the worst interview experience I have ever been through. I will give the recruiter her due. She was the most professional person throughout this process, but once I got past that, the interviewers were rude, condescending, and unprofessional.

The first question was one I asked of *him*. I asked if this hiring process was the same for recent grads as it was for a 30+ year experienced IT manager. He said yes. He started asking questions like "what do you want to do with your life", and "tell me about yourself", "What would you do if the customer wanted an S3 object with specialized billing", and "Tell me about your failures". All the amateurish BS you'd expect.
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Cloud Applications Architect

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Jul 25, 2017

The first question was one I asked of *him*. I asked if this hiring process was the same for recent grads as it was for a 30+ year experienced IT manager. He said yes. He started asking questions like "what do you want to do with your life", and "tell me about yourself", "What would you do if the customer wanted an S3 object with specialized billing", and "Tell me about your failures". All the amateurish BS you'd expect.

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