Very unprofessional and unplesant candidate experience.
1. interview 1: One technical phone screen with dev via shared white board. Couple of coding questions. Interview went well. Recruiter didn't respond back. So, after couple days, I followed up with her just to find out that the position was already filled. But, the recruiter was nice and introduced me to another recruiter via email who had open role on her team similar to what I was looking for. I got in touch with the second recruiter and got tech phone screen scheduled.
2. interview 2: Two technical phone screens with dev's via shared white board. Couple of coding questions and testing scenario questions. Interviews went well. Recruiter didn't respond back. So, after couple days, I followed up with her just to find out that the position, too was already filled. This recruiter also introduced me to another recruiter via email who probably had open role on her team similar to what I was looking for. I got in touch with the third recruiter and got tech phone screen scheduled. This time I made sure to update the third recruiter regarding my previous two experiences and that she should expedite the process. She agreed and a tech phone screen was scheduled.
3. interview 3: Technical phone screen was scheduled during am. I never got a phone call from the interviewer on the scheduled day/time. I kept waiting for 15 minutes and later I emailed the recruiter/coordinator asking what was going on. After 15 minutes the coordinator replied back with a statement, 'The interviewer ran into a last minute conflict, so we will have to reschedule.' Really??
I was taken by a big surprise that there was no process or policy in place to handle such cases, neither did the recruiter/coordinator notified me promplty. It is interviewee's responsibility to keep following up until you get answer. These experiences talk a lot about company's culture and values in people/employees, unprofessional practices, and may be bureaucracy/politics running in the system.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon Lab126 (Sunnyvale, CA) in Nov 2021
Interview
Just gave phone screening interview. Need to practice a lot on behavioural questions. I don't really understand why they have such behavioral questions for someone who is interviewing for pure coding skills. I think most of the real programmers will not be able to showcase themselves. People who can lie and have good communication skill with average programming is what they might be expecting.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Phone Screening:
Role: Software QA Engineer
3 Behavioral questions -30min
2 coding questions - 30 min
Behavioral Questions:
- Tell me about a time when u had to work out of ur comfortzone? How did u manage?
- Tell me about time when I innovated things in the project and how it helped
- Tell me about a time when you solved the big problem with small solution
Coding:
- some reading a file and grouping similar type into a dictionary. Mostly reading line and using regex Output= {'typ1' : [1, 2], 'typ2':[2,3]}
- return the max duplicate letters in string
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon Lab126 (Sunnyvale, CA) in Dec 2020
Interview
1. Online Assessment. This assessment will have you go through a few basic QAE functions and ask you something basic on the scripting side. Behavior questions.
2. Phone Call with Recruit
3. Phone interview with a Sr. QAE on the team to test scripting skills, discuss testing methodology, uncovering bugs, etc. on the technical side.
4. On-site interview with 4-5 members of the team.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Describe a situation when you had a conflict at work with your boss and how you handled it.
2. Test cases for Rumba
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon Lab126 in Apr 2019
Interview
Received a call from recruiter and asked general questions. After two days recruiter scheduled 1 hour phone interview with SW development engineer in test. He was very polite and supportive throughout the interview. Tried to make me comfortable.
