Why I Turned Down an AWS Job Offer

Re:Why I Turned Down an AWS Job Offer by oarabbus_ on Monday August 05, 2019 @07:23PM (#20620331)

Exactly, it would have been fair game to ask why I used a window function instead of an aggregate function + subquery joined back onto the main result set. Or, to ask if I could rewrite the query another way which would be more efficient.

However, the interviewer didn't simply insist the query does not do what was asked (when it did indeed return the correct results).

Instead, the interviewer actually insisted it was an invalid query which would not run at all.

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Re:Why I Turned Down an AWS Job Offer by jaf656s on Monday August 05, 2019 @07:41PM (#20620482)

In this case it sounds like a bad interview and that they missed a good opportunity for discussion!

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Re:Why I Turned Down an AWS Job Offer by socialist_coder on Monday August 05, 2019 @11:53PM (#20621982)

From their perspective, they have hundreds of candidates and need to quickly filter a bunch out. So, having low-technical knowledge recruiters ask questions and look for a standard set of answers is the way they do it. There is no room for technical discussion during this phase, no room for nuance.

I'm not saying this is a good process or that it's fair, but it is the reality right now. You still get OK results and it's far faster and cheaper.

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Re:Why I Turned Down an AWS Job Offer by oarabbus_ on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @12:33AM (#20622153)

I’d already passed the recruiter screen and another phone interview. This was the technical interview with the manager of the group.

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Re:Why I Turned Down an AWS Job Offer by socialist_coder on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @09:04AM (#20624744)

oh wow, damn. that is pretty sad.

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