Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K people in a single year

Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by praneshp on Friday February 03, 2017 @04:13PM (#13563368)

I interviewed there a year ago, at least to me it looked like they were absorbed (or at least parts of the Labs team I spoke to) into Walmart e-commerce. Five excruciating 1-hour rounds where we ran out of anything to talk about because they refused to ask me any coding or architecture or CS fundamental-related questions.

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Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by 0xCAFEFARE on Friday February 03, 2017 @07:56PM (#13564852)

What? They refused to ask CS related questions? Did you discern a reason why?

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Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by praneshp on Friday February 03, 2017 @11:50PM (#13565693)

Well it's not like I asked them and they refused to ask me any questions. 3/5 people asked me "what happens when you boot a VM in openstack", which was a kind-of-shitty question because I can know the answer from just looking at a picture in the docs. More than that, I went in expecting a grilling interview (because Walmart Labs) and it was a huge anti-climax. I wasn't hugely impressed by the people that interviewed me too, except for one guy who has now left.

As to discerning a reason, no clue. At least 2 of them were competent coders, so no idea why they never asked me anything.

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