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“It was very Amazon style with leadership principles, but layered on top of that they kept asking how I’ve used AI to bring about innovation and change, and then they really challenged the metrics behind my stories.”
“Trust me, Amazon’s interview process has a different bar altogether, and for internal roles I’d stick with the AIQB because the interviewers are trained on that. You can even steer the interview by putting a hook in your answer so everything stays under your control.”
“I said I deep dived on an AI project, and they immediately started asking what parameters I used to train the model and why I switched from one LLM to another. Even the behavioral round got super technical.”
“Both core rounds went okay-ish so far. The DSA round was strangely fixated on trees (weird) —the one topic I had not really prepared in-depth for Amazon—and was too focused on DP, strings, sliding window, LCS, and the type of stuff Amazon usually focuses on.”
“The OA was more challenging than I expected, the questions were more aligned with Competitive programming style. Recruiter was really supportive and informative. Still waiting on the next steps, which is the final round.”
“In the phone screen the interviewer is very technical, supposedly should be AWS LP, behavioural and some technical questions. The interviewer says casual conversation but wants me to design the system but doesn't want me to draw diagram but keeps upgrading function or non-functional requirements and expects me to answer asap. And also as detailed as the formula for certain evaluation metrics.”
“I was surprised at the volume of questions in the management screen. I had previously intererviewed at Amazon 3-4 yrs ago and it was 3 or 4 questions. Half of these questions were behavioral and half were management framework/philosophical.”
“Process was quick, team was professional, and had a diverse set of interviews. Recommendation to split the loop into two days.”
“The interview was quite smooth. All of the interviewers asked their direct questions with no further small talk. ”
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“The weirdest Anthropic round was the company values interview. It was almost like a therapy session, and honestly if you went to a therapist at some point, you will pass that round much more easily.”
“What was very unusual is they didn’t give me any tooling to draw the system design, so I just sketched it on a piece of paper and talked them through it, then we got into this oddly deep debate about whether hover-over history should count as a recommendation signal.”
