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Re:How I went from failing every interview to a job at Amazon by naitoon on Sunday April 30, 2017 @06:14PM (#14234155)
As someone who is already in Amazon and moved teams, I recommend you to keep your interviewing skills sharp, specially if you see that the project you're working on is going nowhere and might be cancelled. You wanna be ready to interview so that you don't get moved to a random team. I was in that situation and it really sucks. I had to start over getting used to interviewing, failing 2 or 3 interviews before I landed a job with another team. A really complicated time for me.
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Re:How I went from failing every interview to a job at Amazon by bkovacev on Sunday April 30, 2017 @07:18PM (#14234440)
I'm not sure if I understood this correctly - you had to interview for another team within the company, even though you've already went through that same process once? If true, that's ridiculous.
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Re:How I went from failing every interview to a job at Amazon by mikestew on Sunday April 30, 2017 @08:45PM (#14234773)
Hell, it's what Microsoft was doing fifteen years ago, and I have no reason to think it has changed. Change teams? You have to go through the same loop and same hazing as a new-hire candidate. There might be a little less paperwork, I don't recall.
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Re:How I went from failing every interview to a job at Amazon by therealdrag0 on Friday May 05, 2017 @09:01PM (#14278028)
Yep. I had a friend at Microsoft go through this a couple months ago.
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Re:How I went from failing every interview to a job at Amazon by naitoon on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @03:39AM (#14244636)
That's right. You need to interview with the team you want to move to.

I don't think it's ridiculous. After all, different teams may have different hiring bars and specific skills you have to be proficient on.

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Re:How I went from failing every interview to a job at Amazon by ec109685 on Sunday April 30, 2017 @07:23PM (#14234465)
They subject folks transitioning between the teams to the same level of interview scruitiny?
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Re:How I went from failing every interview to a job at Amazon by naitoon on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @03:42AM (#14244654)
It really depends on the team. But yeah, you have to go through a hiring loop with the team you're moving to.

Some teams can have harder interviews than others. I can confirm that first hand.

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Re:How I went from failing every interview to a job at Amazon by blazespin on Sunday April 30, 2017 @06:17PM (#14234170)
Agreed, some teams at amazon are hire/fire fast. Not all but some. Keep going to interviews, even if you are only mildly interested. Keep your skills sharp. Enjoy the interviews. Make sure the companies pay for everything.
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