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Ask HN: Does Amazon Hire Without BS?

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Re: Ask HN: Does Amazon Hire Without BS?

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Imagine you are talking about an Amazon SDE (software development engineer) or similar role, and not just the warehouse workers, the latter of which I would seriously hope could care less about your advanced education. My experience with Amazon's SDE hiring process has been pretty disappointing. It's a lot like Google's, where they bring in a bunch of devs and managers to tech-screen you, with nothing more than a "ra…

Thank you for the response. That's good to know. I don't understand why interviewing isn't just, "Did you work yesterday? Great. Open up your laptop and show me the code you wrote yesterday."

Because "show me what you wrote for your employer" gets you blacklisted and theoretically sued?

Re: Ask HN: Does Amazon Hire Without BS?

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It is possible. As others said, you will have a somewhat of a tough time getting an interview, but if you get one and nail it, you will get an offer just the same. As to how to get an interview in such situation? - be very proactive and find alternative ways to get your resume in front of the eyes of engineers or engineering managers. If you rely only on submitting through the standard Jobs page, your resume will mos…

I would love to get feedback on my resume. However, I'm not entirely sure how to solve your exercise. Your HN account is only 5 days old. There is no twitter handle "@expopinions", and expopinions[dot]com is a new site with an article about hair products.

BTW. I'm a US citizen.

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