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Re:If You Want This Job, We Must Interview You Forever by bmitc on Friday September 02, 2022 @11:26PM (#32698362)
The interview revolved almost 100% around their leadership principles, of which humility is not one, so that should pinpoint it. And I said no one was a software engineer. All six were management.
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Re:If You Want This Job, We Must Interview You Forever by KerrAvon on Friday September 02, 2022 @11:51PM (#32698501)
Leadership principles means Amazon? Humility is not exactly in great supply at any of the FAANGs
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Re:If You Want This Job, We Must Interview You Forever by NonNefarious on Saturday September 03, 2022 @02:22AM (#32699283)
From that I would guess Google, who are known to be douchebags in the interview process and in the peer-eval process.

Hell, they admitted as much a few years ago... and claimed they were going to try to be better.

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Re:If You Want This Job, We Must Interview You Forever by Nuzzerino on Saturday September 03, 2022 @04:04AM (#32699777)
Google told me the interview would be in my choice of language. I chose C#, passed the first interview, then the second interview was in C and was based on language trivia. The kind of stuff you won’t know unless you work with C on a daily basis.

Needless to say I was pissed.

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Re:If You Want This Job, We Must Interview You Forever by NonNefarious on Saturday September 03, 2022 @06:49PM (#32707042)
That is right in line with the experience of a good friend of mine.

He went on a Google interview, and they said he could solve a problem in the language of his choice. They gave him the assignment and left the room. Since we were at Apple at the time, he was coding daily in Objective-C. So he solved the problem in that.

Despite having said "use any language," the guy came back and said, "Oh, not THAT one."

And that's not even covering the douchebaggery that reportedly occurs once you work there. Another trusted friend, who worked there for years, reported being forced to rank coworkers with a graphical tool that shows pictures of them... and requires you to move them up or down on the screen to put some above others. It makes it impossible for you to put people on an equal level.

This is not from someone who makes stuff up, not to mention that this would be an oddly detailed thing to make up.

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Re:If You Want This Job, We Must Interview You Forever by Nuzzerino on Saturday September 03, 2022 @08:07PM (#32707974)
Wow, guess I dodged a bullet then.
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Re:If You Want This Job, We Must Interview You Forever by I_AM_A_SMURF on Saturday September 03, 2022 @12:08AM (#32698612)
What level were you? I've never heard of managers interviewing software engineers at AMZN.
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Re:If You Want This Job, We Must Interview You Forever by arinlen on Saturday September 03, 2022 @02:53AM (#32699423)
> The interview revolved almost 100% around their leadership principles, of which humility is not one, so that should pinpoint it. And I said no one was a software engineer.

"Leadership principles" sound like Amazon. As far as I know they purposely get all their SDEs involved in hiring, and the bulk of their interviews is based on hard-skills, even when the interviewer's goal is to assess "leadership principles".

Also, one of their explicit interview goals is to have the candidate leave the interview round with a good impression of the company.

Nothing in your story adds up. Either you're embellishing it too hard or you're misusing the FANG keyword.

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