The least personal experience I've ever had – I didn't get to hear or speak to an actual human recruiter at any point throughout the process.

After submitting my resume, I received an online HackerRank assessment which had two parts and was about a LeetCode easy-medium problem.

There were two more depressing parts which felt dystopian:

• In the first, you have a simulated email inbox where you're receiving communication regarding a project, and you rank what you would and wouldn't do in every instance.
• In the second, you're asked very strange questions and need to rank what you think about them.

Overall, an extremely uncomfortable and cold experience.

After passing the assessment, you get to schedule a face-to-face interview with a Senior Engineer (and often times a shadow). The interviewer clearly has to read questions off of a screen and then write down your responses.

After that, you have a coding exercise, which in my case was [missing information].

After doing well there and getting good feedback, I received an automated email saying I would not be progressing and providing no feedback whatsoever.

I went into this without wanting to actually work for Amazon and just as a way to see how their recruitment works, and I was somehow even further disappointed.

Overall, just a very robotic, cold, and distant experience.

Tell me about a time when you had to balance between a correct implementation and delivering what was requested.

Tell me about a time when you found a bug and what was your solution.