I think not taking the position they offered you was a big mistake, the guy was giving you a way in! FANG companies have a lot of internal jobs offer that never get to the general public and it's quite easy to switch from the inside than being an outsider trying to get in.
Absolutely incredible video. The level of candor more than surpasses every other video that is similar to it. And he also didn't bait the audience with whether or not he got an offer before he actually told us. That enabled us to listen to his narrative and digest the information chronologically. In this way, we were able to form our own opinions without introducing any bias. 10/10 for a video detailing an experience
I always feel sorry for when you end your video with not getting an offer And im really scared but also strangely motivated to do my best on such job interviews Thanks for the videos!
You're an amazing mate. I hate the end of the video solely because you were rejected. Hell, it seems like I cannot handle your rejection at all. Thanks for such amazing content. More power to you.
FYI, a bunch of your facts are wrong, e.g. about what a bar raiser does. A bar raiser does not have to be an engineer, nor are they all powerful. I’d suggest you reword this in a future video to not freak candidates out. Additionally, it is not a bonus if you mention the LP by name when you’re giving your answers. In fact it can make you sound more robotic and like you’re trying to “sell” to the interviewer. Don’t sell, just be your professional self, and trust that the person on the other side is there because they really want to hire you, and let the conversion happen organically. Other than that, I think this is super great, thanks for putting this video together.
I have an internship interview coming up soon and I’ve been stressing like crazy but your video really helped me out! You didn’t get the role you wanted but you still took the rejection so well! It really made me feel a lot better about the whole process. Like the end result doesn’t matter as much. I just have to give my best, like you said. Thanks again 💛
I mean it is hard for people to perform well in this kind of lengthy stressful interviews, but if one can't write what sounded like straight forward dijkstra, it is not surprising that he did not get the offer. But that said, there are many people who just did 3OAs and a 30min talk round and got in as SDE as well. Amazon is weird.
@@mayankbhanot8986 nope, normal companies aren't like this. Most companies and teams out there are just looking to put boots on the ground and get the ball rolling with candidates that have the right skills to get the job done.
@@Datcrit because everyone wants to go into faang, they have tens of thousands of resume coming in for each of their junior opening, so they can afford be elitist and only want those with the best study ability.
I just completed my virtual onsite at Google on Monday and have my onsite with Amazon in a few weeks. This was extremely helpful. I am 50/50 on my google interview but fill that I was communicative with the interviewers. Wish me luck or pray for me. Thank you!!
As a recruiter this is pretty accurate. Just know we will fight that BR in a debrief if the whole team is giving you a thumbs up. Won’t always win, won’t always lose. It usually comes down to the HM and YES 9 out of 10 times you will get a support or systems engineer offer instead of the SDE role you interviewed for. My advice for anyone in the interviewing process is to make sure your recruiter is going to bat for you. If you feel like they are dropping the ball or not preparing you don’t go through the loop, it could potentially be your only chance for 6mo-2yrs. Good luck! Great vid!
@@american-professor Good question, they should! I do every time and I recommend my team do the same. Not only will it help you earn trust with your customer, but also the HM and business you support.
You kicked ass mate, should have got the SDE 1 offer, pretty intense over there, can't imagine the day to day grind of that environment, and for that reason I'm out... :)
The 2nd recruiter that called is the "client lead" which are closers at Amazon....they handle the recruting process at Amazon...the initial recruiter is a sourcer
Next time you do a video like this can you go in to detail of the technical bits because keep in mind most people watching this want to or are going to do this interview. Great video tho!
Footballer Zlatan Ibrahimović received a call from F.C. Arsenal London, to come to their trials. At the time he was young and talented. But he played for Netherlands side Ajax, and a move to Arsenal would be huge for him. He simply replied, Zlatan doesn't do trials and went on to be one of the greatest football player ever. That's my opinion regarding these interviews, especially these that have 100 rounds for entry level. And I am a software engineer, earning good money.
with the buying and selling, I would think of adding a bool input and then using switch statements and determining which direction the money was going by multiplying one version by -1.
you sound like you did really good to me im surprised that you did not get the offer in the end :O they are intense. this is making me even more scared for my amazon interview coming up
DFS doesn't actually work for that problem, as it can return a path to the target node that isn't the shortest. The solution was probably a BFS, or parallel BFS if you want to get fancy. Djikstra's would have applied if the adj matrix contained path lengths.
This just goes to show the famous "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure". The people at FANG have developed interviews based on data analysis. However, now that their measurements are public, people just train endlessly to SEEMINGLY meet the requirements. A little ironic.
I got a split decision at Google both during the initial phone screen and in person. For the initial phone screen they just told me I needed to take another phone screen. For the in-person they told me I had bar-belled feedback; like most big tech they err on the side of caution. That's very helpful feedback, especially to specifically name the 14 principles. Get them next time!
For the record his interviews were all indian guys at ages of 25-29 with Phd s. Legend has it the started coded in the slams of india since 7 years old
I'm about to have my 4th interview in an hours time lol. This popped on my feed. I think I need to do a youtube video to share my experience. Hopefully I'll do well.
@@nios1515 Still waiting. I've been through this before. Amazon can sometime go quiet even after successful interviews. I think they out source there recruiter's. I've waiting weeks between positive interview's. Works for me as it give me time to prepare. Edit: Literally just found out they filled the position. Another flop :( At least it wasn't a rejection. The interviewer let slip that he was "putting me through" to the onsite, but I'm guessing there was another internal application or different recruiter.
@@eon001 ugh, that sucks. Hopefully you will like the position offered. Almost every youtube video out there ended that talks about Amazon interviews, ended with a rejection.
For the second interview, I believe you should have gone for BFS as it's guaranteed to give you the "shortest path", regardless of cost or everything. DFS will find a "path" but not the shortest. BFS will find the shortest but might need to explore additional nodes before finding it.
you also need to add memorization on top of bfs, a node with remaining distance to the other side of the river do not need to be revisited for duplicated calculation
I'm pretty sure I missed out on an Amazon job over flubbing the 14 principles. I spent a lot of time preparing technically, and even behavioral, but they REALLY wanted more 14 principle based responses.
You probably should have taken that Support Position. Once you're locked in Amazon, 3-6 months later you can spam applications for a dev position and it would be much easier since you're an internal employee. I work for the Federal Gov so as an internal employee you can change jobs like a pin ball machine.
Cooome on ..that's crazy... I'm from IBM and I just cancelled my interview for Amazon... are you serius? can't believe they are up to this recruiting process... no way it's absolutely boring ... I was almost sleeping hearing you to break up such long and stressful process... I'm out... thanks for sharing your thoughts Sir
I've been told by recruiters to not specifically mention the leadership principles, as it just looks like you're using buzzwords just to get brownie points. Let the interviewer interpret what principles your story aligns with.
man I just ended my coding asessment. I dont think I made it to the next round. But by judging what is ahead, and watching this video, if you did not get an offer, I don't know who would.
yep, thats why they get paid so highly. also, keep in mind that amazon is one of the easier companies to get into....google and Facebook are even harder!
Glad this video was recommended and subscribed. Highly recommend for someone like me who is on the lookout. - Does geography of where you reside matter let's say if one lives in Australia or Asian countries like India as they seem to have large development centers? - How to increase the probability of the resume to be picked up? Have you been presenting more of side projects/Github links? - Is it possible to land in an internship if you're an experienced person? Thanks again!
Hey, thanks for watching! - Geography matters of course. Unless you are willing to move to another location with more opportunities. - You need to improve the quality of your resume. I will most likely make a video going through mine. Other than that, I would try and get references rather than sending tons of cold applications. - You need to be enrolled as a student in order to get an internship.
I did solve most of them but I don't think I was exceptional in any of the interviews. I still think I should have gotten an offer but that's just me :)
He didn't have haloed angels playing violins once his marker left the whiteboard. I think Amazon is looking for people who have memorized nearly all leetcode problems and leadership principles, and are so obedient that they will not look for work-life balance once they start grinding, oops I mean working.
Reminds me of the node.js original author applying for a node.js position which required 10 years of node.js experience when node.js was only born seven years ago. And he was not chosen because he only had 7 years of node.js experience.
It's an empirical rule that the lower the position is the higher the standards are. I bet they hired their cfo or marketing director just on a handshake in the irrelevant conference
I' m right in the middle of the carousel interviews after having already done the exercise and interview. 6 interview in total of which 5 are carousel and behavior based. It's pretty hard and I hope things go well in the coming days
@@amanivalentine7610 I didn't get the job, the carousel interviews are hard and I'm just not good at memory retrieval and answering in that kind of detail over such a long stretch of time. Honestly, the whole process has left me feeling like it's a giant waste of time. The focus on these kind of questions primarily made it for me impossible to pass. I hope you've got a good memory of what you've achieved in the years past otherwise I wouldn't bother at all.
Not sure, but maybe he was looking for the shortest path on a DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph). We just need to make sure that the graph doesn't have any cycles first, then we can apply DP. And Dijkstra would work anyway, but also we should ask if there would be negative edges or not.
I have a quick question. Did you write the code in java or any language? And if they ask you to write in an IDE? I have the practice of using Intellence , do you think it's good to use that feature while learning? I am so curious if they have Intellence? I am sorry for the dumb question.
I'm having my phone interview for the same position in 2 weeks! I honestly feel nervous because I cannot tell how much algorithms I need to cover. I've been working on Android for a year and since graduation I haven't really touched algorithms and DS. Any advice on which type of problems (leetcode) I need to focus on? I really want to get it ✨
Good luck on your phone interview! I recommend studying linked lists, trees/graphs, queues/stacks, backtracking, and recursion. Check out my video on the amazon phone interview!
Microsoft and Amazon interviews are pretty easy but again luck is a factor. I've attended multiple times but I wasn't able to crack them even though I was asked questions that I had seen before. I wasn't having a good day.
@@somerandomguy000 Didnt get the job sadly. They test you on leadership principles and the coding questions they ask is a mix of Leetcode easy/medium. The best advice I can offer from my experience is that you need make sure you have some sort of experience that can be related to most of the leadership principles.
Hi, I had cleared coding round and was told that I will be having next rounds on 26th November. But. I didn't get any mail regarding interview after that. Waiting since 15 days for the interview schedule. Is there any chance that they don't conduct interview even after clearing coding round? I keep on asking them but not getting reply. It is very helpful if could suggest me what is the point of contact to reach out, thank you.
Good video but I wish the volume on the video was louder. I had the volume settings cranked up to max and I could barely hear you. That's disappointing that you were offered an IT job rather than a developer position. I have an interview with Amazon in a couple days and I really don't stand a chance at passing the technical part of the interview but I already have another good offer and I won't have to move.
For the question, have a main parent method that calls both buying and selling and changes based on whats passed in sounds like it could possibly be solved with the strategy pattern approach🤔 the concept would be polymorphism. - You can have an interface which has an action method that each buy and sell classes implements. - then have the parent/main method accept that interface as a type for the argument. - then that method would handle which method gets called based on the class that was passed in. (since they're both implementing the same interface) just practicing cause i have an amazon interview coming up. thanks for all your vids man, super helpful!
Hey thanks for useful video :) any idea about the Business analyst role, What kinda question they will ask? also, I need to clear the SHL numeric quiz too. Would you recommend any link or so I can practice before giving the test. Thanks in advance.
Thanks for the detailed description. Just one question. Did the interviewers EXPLICITLY tell your about the LPs they are going to ask about, or was it IMPLIED?
Fair enough that it wasn't the position that you wanted, but you could've grabbed the opportunity and excel in the role they offered you and then progress into the role you wanted, it's not like you'd be boxed in at a company like Amazon, there's always room for progression...
Why are there so many videos about Amazon interviews? It's not a game developer, chipmaker, aerospace company or anything equally exciting and the pay is just slightly above average (in Canada). So what's the fuss? How is this better than, say, Walmart?
Sorry did you say you skipped the OA? I'm wondering how people solve OA? Cause I passed the coding test (test cases), but still could fail. What could be the reason for it?
