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“The process was significantly more rigorous than what I’ve experienced at other big tech companies. While most companies focus primarily on technical execution, Amazon's intense focus on evaluating every response against specific Leadership Principles adds a layer of complexity that requires deep preparation. That said, the recruiter was incredibly accurate, transparent, and helpful regarding what to expect, which is rare in this industry and highly appreciated."”
“Question was multi-stage coding challenge where each completed level unlocked the next set of requirements. Overall, the tasks were fairly straightforward. However, the exercise was quite time-consuming, and I ended up using the full allotted time without being able to complete every level. One challenge with the format was that the stages had to be completed sequentially, so there was no option to skip a level and move on to another problem. This made time management especially important. ”
“The LLD Round and LP round where great. Both the interviewers where kind and patient. LP (Leadership Principle) round started with the Behavioural questions and some past experience of mine. We had a great conversation. In LLD round you need to make sure you provide proper list down of Requirements, Entities and Class Diagram. This is the basic minimum they expect of you. Rest you can explain it and write down the points.”
“The process was new as there was a repository question. This round was AI assisted so you need to use AI quite well.”
“It was well, interviewer was helpful and was asking mostly standard questions from leetcode. I prepared from Strivers A2Z sheet so it was enough. I could have explained my thinking better”
“The recruiter organized the flow well. My first round was 1 hour interview. When I qualified that round I was scheduled for the final round with 5 interview rounds scheduled on the same day. There was no delay from the recruiting team on informing the status and next steps through out the process. ”
“OA was extremely rigourous and took about 3-4hrs at a stretch. 2 coding ques 1) DP Hard 2) Springboot framelwork 6 errors. had to solve using AI assisted bot through a repository”
“The difficulty level was medium, interviewer was very interested in understanding the different approaches rather then looking on a particular solution”
“It was good experience overall Went well Recruiter really put efforts in prepping me for HM Didn’t go well HM round was not clear enough There were no direct LP questions asked so they gave another Screening round”
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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.”
