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Software Development Engineer (SDE) III Interview Experience - Berlin, Germany

August 26, 2022
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

  1. 90-minute online assessment

  2. One-hour face-to-face interview (remote). Rejected at this step.

  3. The "loop": 5 more interviews like step 2, all in a single day.

Whole process was very unpleasant:

  • Amazon will not tell you a target salary or even a range. From googling and asking a contact I knew, I found that it would just about be in the range I was looking at, but I would have to haggle. This is utter BS in this job market; they seem to be arrogant enough to think it's acceptable. Share options are heavily loaded to years 3 and 4 of your employment so they can manage you out before then if you don't fit.

  • The face-to-face interviewer clearly did not want to be there. He constantly interrupted before I could answer his questions and mostly seemed interested in trying to show he knew more than me. Had I made the loop, then if there had been anyone else like this clown, I would have walked instead of wasting my time any further.

Questions

Online coding via HackerRank.

Two "medium" questions in 90 minutes.

"Design Amazon Prime TV"

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Amazon's interview process for their Software Development Engineer (SDE) III roles in Berlin, Germany is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

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