Hacks

Hey, I’m a software engineer at Amazon and want to share some hacks on getting hired. Couple points: 1) Please do not message me 2) I have participated in many interviews, this is my experience, the morals of these cheats or whether you have success is up to you. First, the coding rounds (not including OA) does not allow you to run your code, it’s basically a blank text editor. Many interviewers cannot really tell if your code will run, they just see if it “looks correct”. I’ve seen a lot of candidates get hired by borderline writing pseudocode. The lesson here is to waste zero time wondering about nit-picky details like if your loop is off by one, or what that built in method to convert an int to a string is… they care about SPEED and just that you have the right idea. Second, Amazon treats their LPs like the holy texts. But the only thing that really matters is delivering to please your superiors no matter what. This means put customer obsession, deliver results, and ownership above all else. These are the rules you live by. You tell these people that you skipped Christmas because you had to fix an open source dependency to unblock some random guy in Indian if you have to… Honestly I hate this company but if this helps you get hired I’m happy for you, just know that if you do get hired and you BS’d using my tried and true formula, you may get pipped.