Interviewing with Amazon
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I have an opportunity to interview with Amazon for a position as a contractor.
I've heard these type of tech companies can have NDA and brutal interviews. What should I expect? Do they do the same level of interviews for contractors as employees?
The position is a higher level position and the proposed rate is above market price by quite a bit.
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I think someone here interviewed with Amazon in the past, but I do not recall clearly.
I've no experience in that, so I cannot say.
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@JaredBusch said in Interviewing with Amazon:
I think someone here interviewed with Amazon in the past, but I do not recall clearly.
I've no experience in that, so I cannot say.
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@black3dynamite said in Interviewing with Amazon:
@JaredBusch said in Interviewing with Amazon:
I think someone here interviewed with Amazon in the past, but I do not recall clearly.
I've no experience in that, so I cannot say.
Might have been, but wasn't sure.
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Yeah that was me.
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^^^ That's probably all he can tell you about it.
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@RojoLoco said in Interviewing with Amazon:
^^^ That's probably all he can tell you about it.
Ha I don't remember what I'll I signed. I might be able to pm you some stuff.
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@RandyBlevins said in Interviewing with Amazon:
I've heard these type of tech companies can have NDA and brutal interviews.
I interviewed with Amazon and there is no NDA. No self respecting company will use an NDA, because no one worth their salt with even entertain doing an interview with you under NDA. Amazon interview was fair, not harsh. Reasonable. Certainly no walk in the park, and long.
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@scottalanmiller said in Interviewing with Amazon:
@RandyBlevins said in Interviewing with Amazon:
I've heard these type of tech companies can have NDA and brutal interviews.
I interviewed with Amazon and there is no NDA. No self respecting company will use an NDA, because no one worth their salt with even entertain doing an interview with you under NDA. Amazon interview was fair, not harsh. Reasonable. Certainly no walk in the park, and long.
Well I definitely signed an NDA when interviewing with them.
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The only large Silicon Valley type firm that is well known for having an NDA is Google. Everything at Google is a secret, including quality of the job.
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@stacksofplates said in Interviewing with Amazon:
@scottalanmiller said in Interviewing with Amazon:
@RandyBlevins said in Interviewing with Amazon:
I've heard these type of tech companies can have NDA and brutal interviews.
I interviewed with Amazon and there is no NDA. No self respecting company will use an NDA, because no one worth their salt with even entertain doing an interview with you under NDA. Amazon interview was fair, not harsh. Reasonable. Certainly no walk in the park, and long.
Well I definitely signed an NDA when interviewing with them.
Really? That's odd. Was that for an interview stage or was it past that point and like after you were offered a position?
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@scottalanmiller said in Interviewing with Amazon:
@stacksofplates said in Interviewing with Amazon:
@scottalanmiller said in Interviewing with Amazon:
@RandyBlevins said in Interviewing with Amazon:
I've heard these type of tech companies can have NDA and brutal interviews.
I interviewed with Amazon and there is no NDA. No self respecting company will use an NDA, because no one worth their salt with even entertain doing an interview with you under NDA. Amazon interview was fair, not harsh. Reasonable. Certainly no walk in the park, and long.
Well I definitely signed an NDA when interviewing with them.
Really? That's odd. Was that for an interview stage or was it past that point and like after you were offered a position?
Interview. Here's from the email:
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@scottalanmiller said in Interviewing with Amazon:
@stacksofplates said in Interviewing with Amazon:
@scottalanmiller said in Interviewing with Amazon:
@RandyBlevins said in Interviewing with Amazon:
I've heard these type of tech companies can have NDA and brutal interviews.
I interviewed with Amazon and there is no NDA. No self respecting company will use an NDA, because no one worth their salt with even entertain doing an interview with you under NDA. Amazon interview was fair, not harsh. Reasonable. Certainly no walk in the park, and long.
Well I definitely signed an NDA when interviewing with them.
Really? That's odd. Was that for an interview stage or was it past that point and like after you were offered a position?
I had around 6 interviews total.
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@stacksofplates said in Interviewing with Amazon:
@scottalanmiller said in Interviewing with Amazon:
@stacksofplates said in Interviewing with Amazon:
@scottalanmiller said in Interviewing with Amazon:
@RandyBlevins said in Interviewing with Amazon:
I've heard these type of tech companies can have NDA and brutal interviews.
I interviewed with Amazon and there is no NDA. No self respecting company will use an NDA, because no one worth their salt with even entertain doing an interview with you under NDA. Amazon interview was fair, not harsh. Reasonable. Certainly no walk in the park, and long.
Well I definitely signed an NDA when interviewing with them.
Really? That's odd. Was that for an interview stage or was it past that point and like after you were offered a position?
I had around 6 interviews total.
What were your impressions and how did it go?
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@IRJ said in Interviewing with Amazon:
@stacksofplates said in Interviewing with Amazon:
@scottalanmiller said in Interviewing with Amazon:
@stacksofplates said in Interviewing with Amazon:
@scottalanmiller said in Interviewing with Amazon:
@RandyBlevins said in Interviewing with Amazon:
I've heard these type of tech companies can have NDA and brutal interviews.
I interviewed with Amazon and there is no NDA. No self respecting company will use an NDA, because no one worth their salt with even entertain doing an interview with you under NDA. Amazon interview was fair, not harsh. Reasonable. Certainly no walk in the park, and long.
Well I definitely signed an NDA when interviewing with them.
Really? That's odd. Was that for an interview stage or was it past that point and like after you were offered a position?
I had around 6 interviews total.
What were your impressions and how did it go?
Mine was decent. Only two interviews. One phone, then they flew me out for a few days. They did one full day of interviews then paid for me to stay in Seattle to get to know the city and make moving decisions. The whole process was pretty smooth and well done. Nothing to knock your socks off, but better than Facebook, not as good as most Wall St. firms. But way better than an average Fortune 100 firm. Very professional. Took me out to lunch. Interview process was reasonable, not some silly "did you happen to memorize the right answers" kind of BS.
