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Re:I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months by nameoda on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @06:00PM (#29816413)
My personal experience was almost the exact opposite (granted, this was in 2020, and things might have changed since then). Both companies asked leetcode-style questions and behavioral questions.

The Amazon interviewers were engaged, excited when talking about their work, and seemed like they were rooting for me to succeed.

Google interviewers were condescending and looked like they were unhappy to be part of the interview process and were just going through the motions because they were forced to. I had a lot of self-doubt after being treated like crap by the Google interview and decided to never do that to myself again.

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Re:I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months by SpicyLemonZest on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @06:56PM (#29817043)
I'm pretty confident it's just luck of the draw. At both companies, giving interviews is an expectation for promotion, so many interviewers don't particularly want to be there and some are bad at hiding that fact.
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Re:I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months by decafninja on Thursday January 06, 2022 @10:26AM (#29824703)
Yeah, there is always a subjective factor involved in these interviews. You are just screwed if you meet an interviewer that doesn't like you personally for some reason and acts hostile.

Or maybe they are putting on an act to seem hostile to push your buttons.

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