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Re:How I went from failing every interview to a job at Amazon by majormajor on Sunday April 30, 2017 @07:09PM (#14234392)
"Interviewing is stupid simple. It is your ego moment. You get to sit in a room and talk about yourself. Although you don't control the conversation you can steer it in creative enough directions to keep it fun and positive."

That would be a nice improvement as a first filter, IMO, but this isn't always the case. For Google, for instance, the very first step might be a 45-minute phone conversation with a bored engineer who just wants you to code up whatever tree-based structure and methods tickle their fancy. They might not even tell you what team they work on, or what they do. They have a script, and they run it from memory, and your experience and past accomplishments are out the window.

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Re:How I went from failing every interview to a job at Amazon by austincheney on Sunday April 30, 2017 @07:14PM (#14234418)
Google has the privilege to treat you like an ape, because they know people will take it to work there. "Dance monkey"! If being spanked like a monkey doesn't tickle your fancy then don't interview there. Interview prep isn't going to make that better.
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Re:How I went from failing every interview to a job at Amazon by majormajor on Sunday April 30, 2017 @07:51PM (#14234599)
Meanwhile, a bunch of non-Google companies think that this must be the right way to do it, so they copy it, and teaching people how to game the system like in the original article give them no reason not to, it just acclimates everyone to playing by stupid rules.
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Re:How I went from failing every interview to a job at Amazon by austincheney on Sunday April 30, 2017 @08:00PM (#14234631)
Then call them out on it during the interview.
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Re:How I went from failing every interview to a job at Amazon by majormajor on Sunday April 30, 2017 @11:34PM (#14235423)
Heck, I've walked away from an onsite mid-loop because I didn't like the process and it was stretching out and I had a flight to catch, but that doesn't mean I want things to be a "only the don't-give-a-fuck survive."
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Re:How I went from failing every interview to a job at Amazon by arvinsim on Sunday April 30, 2017 @09:39PM (#14234967)
Seriously? Looks like a quick way to get rejected, or at least be regarded negatively.
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Re:How I went from failing every interview to a job at Amazon by austincheney on Sunday April 30, 2017 @10:06PM (#14235073)
If you are a afraid of asking valid questions for fear that you will be rejected god help you. It doesn't hurt to simply ask a question.

Now I know there are a lot of weak and timid personalities in the world of development, but once you put that blood into the water usually it doesn't take the sharks long to swarm on it. I have never walked away from an interview feeling dejected for asking the interviewer reasonable questions or attempting to qualify their assertions.

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Re:How I went from failing every interview to a job at Amazon by sillysaurus3 on Sunday April 30, 2017 @07:21PM (#14234456)
As someone who recently ran the interview gauntlet, the parent comment seems pretty accurate. It matches my experience with interviews at a wide variety of companies.
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Re:How I went from failing every interview to a job at Amazon by voltagex_ on Sunday April 30, 2017 @07:21PM (#14234457)
The first phone interview I got with them was with an interviewer asking questions that were given to them by someone else - ranging from how does DNS work to inodes in filesystems and estimating 2^128... at 6:30AM in the morning.
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