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The Management posted:they're the best interviews because you're like gently caress this I already have an offer in hand. you should always be asking tough questions about the job. You should, but having that offer gives me the confidence to actually act on the information I get, instead of what I usually do: shrugging and saying "oh well it can't be worse than what I have now" (wrong)
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i had the best phone screen of my life today (as the interviewer), insofar as the guy told me he was too busy to do it now and asked me to reschedule it hey whatever, works for me buddy, i won't be doing the next one
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I found it, literal interview hell. After the usual phone, HR and technical interview gauntlet they want me to do a 6-hour pen & paper aptitude test and psych evaluation Is this common, or is it just because the company is old as balls
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Double Bill posted:I found it, literal interview hell. After the usual phone, HR and technical interview gauntlet they want me to do a 6-hour pen & paper aptitude test and psych evaluation Tell them to gently caress off
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Double Bill posted:I found it, literal interview hell. After the usual phone, HR and technical interview gauntlet they want me to do a 6-hour pen & paper aptitude test and psych evaluation a friend of mine is walking amazon's process right now, and they gave him a multiple choice paper test with questions like: quote:A man showed a boy next to him and said He is the son of my wifes sister-in-law, but I am the only child of my parents. How is man's son related to him?
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please come early for the phrenology screening [short hairstlyes preferred]
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Double Bill posted:I found it, literal interview hell. After the usual phone, HR and technical interview gauntlet they want me to do a 6-hour pen & paper aptitude test and psych evaluation IBM? ADINSX posted:Tell them to gently caress off do this
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Twerk from Home posted:a friend of mine is walking amazon's process right now, and they gave him a multiple choice paper test with questions like: man, now i am really glad i washed out early on that bullshit. i had a vague twinge of regret at flipping out at them after failing a timed coding test. i was expecting fizzbuzz, but they wanted me to construct and traverse a trie and have it pass automated tests
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Yep, I got sent the study guide for the Amazon tech test and kindly told them i was no longer interested. I especially liked the recommendation to start practicing coding without an IDE for the week prior since they expect syntactically perfect code for their whiteboard portion. Also the last section of the study guide was just links to good press Amazon has gotten recently.
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I feel like these interviews are really testing how hard you want to work somewhere. However, considering Amazon has 11k job openings in Seattle alone, the answer for most people seems to be "not very"
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kdrudy posted:Yep, I got sent the study guide for the Amazon tech test and kindly told them i was no longer interested. I especially liked the recommendation to start practicing coding without an IDE for the week prior since they expect syntactically perfect code for their whiteboard portion. lmao
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kdrudy posted:Yep, I got sent the study guide for the Amazon tech test and kindly told them i was no longer interested. I especially liked the recommendation to start practicing coding without an IDE for the week prior since they expect syntactically perfect code for their whiteboard portion. lol
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ADINSX posted:I feel like these interviews are really testing how hard you want to work somewhere. However, considering Amazon has 11k job openings in Seattle alone, the answer for most people seems to be "not very" I wonder if there's ever moments where they're like "maybe the problem is... us? nah that can't be it we're awesome" like I pretty much know I have been somehow deemed "non-googley" but I still get dozens of recruiter hits for google jobs that have been open for more than a year
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kdrudy posted:Yep, I got sent the study guide for the Amazon tech test and kindly told them i was no longer interested. I especially liked the recommendation to start practicing coding without an IDE for the week prior since they expect syntactically perfect code for their whiteboard portion. Lmao
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Twerk from Home posted:a friend of mine is walking amazon's process right now, and they gave him a multiple choice paper test with questions like: this is insanely garbage; is this an SDE position? kdrudy posted:Yep, I got sent the study guide for the Amazon tech test and kindly told them i was no longer interested. I especially liked the recommendation to start practicing coding without an IDE for the week prior since they expect syntactically perfect code for their whiteboard portion. for the first part at least, it's because you'll be whiteboarding. I yearn for the day when we switch to laptops for any coding parts of in-person interviews.
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FamDav posted:for the first part at least, it's because you'll be whiteboarding. I yearn for the day when we switch to laptops for any coding parts of in-person interviews. the "syntactically perfect" part is a bigger issue than the whiteboarding itself, imo. jony neuemonic fucked around with this message at 18:14 on Mar 29, 2017 |
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jony neuemonic posted:the "syntactically perfect" part is a bigger issue than the whiteboarding itself, imo. i agree, whiteboarding anything more substantial than pseudocode is a waste of time
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Twerk from Home posted:a friend of mine is walking amazon's process right now, and they gave him a multiple choice paper test with questions like: going to an in person with amazon next week. i can't wait for the brainteasers!
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FamDav posted:this is insanely garbage; is this an SDE position? yeah, it is entry level SDE, but in Austin not Seattle
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i whiteboard in pseudohaskell, its a miracle i got hired
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just finished the timed take home test. two hours. kicked its rear end. now we wait...
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applied for 4 positions yesterday and 2 want me to interview. feels good man
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amazon recruiters keep emailing now that I have two ex coworkers there, and I immediately delete the emails without reading them as is proper
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i think i need to get out of this market, i've actually run out of things to apply to. 
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ugh, i responded to a recruiters email and got roped into bullshit. I read "pay 400k+" and my brain turned off. now he wants me to fill out a loving survey and send an updated resume. I don't have time for this poo poo. don't be me - don't respond to recruiter emails.
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Illusive gently caress Man posted:ugh, i responded to a recruiters email and got roped into bullshit. I read "pay 400k+" and my brain turned off. now he wants me to fill out a loving survey and send an updated resume. I don't have time for this poo poo. don't be me - don't respond to recruiter emails. just send him your old one and forget to do the survey
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Illusive gently caress Man posted:ugh, i responded to a recruiters email and got roped into bullshit. I read "pay 400k+" and my brain turned off. now he wants me to fill out a loving survey and send an updated resume. I don't have time for this poo poo. don't be me - don't respond to recruiter emails. jobs that pay 400k+ (base) do not advertise how much they pay. they don't even have listings for that type of job, it's about knowing people or specialized head hunters.
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The Management posted:jobs that pay 400k+ (base) do not advertise how much they pay. they don't even have listings for that type of job, it's about knowing people or specialized head hunters. c'mon, nobody except senior management gets that kind of base salary. i know people who want to make moeny are getting $300k-600k but the majority of that is stock or bonus
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The Management posted:jobs that pay 400k+ (base) do not advertise how much they pay. they don't even have listings for that type of job, it's about knowing people or specialized head hunters. this was total comp for a senior quantitative trading thing so I assumed it was realistic. I don't know poo poo about financial dev work except that it can pay a lot. but yeah, they probably don't email random nobodies like me to hire.
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The Management posted:jobs that pay 400k+ (base) do not advertise how much they pay. they don't even have listings for that type of job, it's about knowing people or specialized head hunters. now that i think about it i'm surprised shitbag recruiters haven't started calling themselves headhunters for that extra edge poo poo now that i've written this it's going to be come real. i'm sorry. ims orry
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The Management posted:jobs that pay 400k+ (base) do not advertise how much they pay. they don't even have listings for that type of job, it's about knowing people or specialized head hunters. oh so it was an email from huxley
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Illusive gently caress Man posted:this was total comp for a senior quantitative trading thing so I assumed it was realistic. I don't know poo poo about financial dev work except that it can pay a lot. but yeah, they probably don't email random nobodies like me to hire. it wasnt from "Herman Search" was it? https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3809017#post469162746
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i've heard bad things about amazon before but maybe amazon canada is different? whatever I'll apply and if there's a bunch of BS I'll be out
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DuckConference posted:i've heard bad things about amazon before but maybe amazon canada is different? whatever I'll apply and if there's a bunch of BS I'll be out at amazon everything depends on what team you're on.
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qirex posted:like I pretty much know I have been somehow deemed "non-googley" but I still get dozens of recruiter hits for google jobs that have been open for more than a year
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rotor posted:at amazon everything depends on what team you're on. or subsidiary of... 
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fart simpson posted:hi rotor hello ShadowHawk posted:I'm pretty sure almost all Google jobs are open all the time because they hire generally then place people later. yeah they always have plenty of room for stanford grads and weird autists who are good at making everything a sorting problem Sniep posted:or subsidiary of... hi sniep
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rotor posted:hi sniep how's things?
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