During my onsite 3 weeks ago, I used the same story 3 or 4 times because there were so much I could use from it. I didn't know it could disqualify me. Yet, I said to the interviewers: I already used this story before, I can tell you an older one or I can use the same story again but focused on another part. I was told to use the same story. In the end, I was selected, so I guess it is a good hint to ask them what they want to hear, at least shows your awareness of the situation and your worries about what they need from you. At least this is what I learned from my onsite experience. I had even used this story on my phone screen interview but I told them during the onsite: I already said about this story before but a lot has changed, I don't want to have a mismatch from what I said previously and what I'm saying now. Thanks for your vids, helped a lot!
Same here. Since I am still a student he said that's perfectly normal ;D haven't heard back yet though :O but the interview was only yesterday :) so we'll see
7. You didn't have answer to questions. You should go about finding answers 6. Didn't prepare enough failure stories. 3-5 suggested 5. You didn't role play your experience. Written answer vs spoken answer to coach 4. Repeated story over and over again, not diverse enough 3. You memorize things and when you went out of your comfort zone you stammered. 2. You didn't know why they ask the question in the first place 1. You simply gave poor answers
TED z in that case you shouldn’t work in a global company. I am sure interviewers are in that position because of their accomplishments and not accent.
You were rejected because you were not meant to be there and life is telling you to go to a different direction. When one door is closed it means you were not suppose to go that way and you are one step closer to your goal!!!
I got hired right away after my onsite. Pre-interview with recruiter -> interview with engineering hiring manager -> 5 onsite interviews with last one being with the hiring manager again. I found being truthful helped a lot and goes a long way. I didn't really have experience working with IQ, OQ and PQ since I mainly worked with class 1 devices and not 2 and 3. Again, they asked if I knew what they were and said take a guess. I got close to the concept and ideas minus some extra stuff, but enough to pass I guess. Questions are usually hard because you need to get a feel during the interview and ask about the roll and expand upon those questions. My other interviews I got rejected, but it was probably because I didn't show that I was knowledgeable enough or lacked incite on certain topics due to the lack of exposure. Upon reflecting on the interview the only hint I was able to pick up on was. "Oh you don't need this on your resume or maybe next time when you're looking for a new job to leave it off." Tough questions that seemed easy but were hard for me for the positions that I got rejected from were -How do you define success? -How do you measure that success?
I was referred by an Amazon employee who was also HM. I went through phone screens & Amazon loop (6 back to back interviews). I prepared my answers watching yours and few other’s vids. It was very helpful. I didn’t get an offer but overall it was good experience. After watching this vid, I realized, I didn’t use all the stories from my list. I repeated few stories because I couldn’t remember the others on time. I also became nervous at system design interview. The recruiter told me I can apply immediately for any other position I liked, but I’ll wait for six months at least. Thanks for your help!
I am a recent graduate, how many stories should I have about the almost exact same questions that come 3 to 4 times. It seems to me that many people just make up stories to appear like a good fit. Honesty is not being appreciated
Hi Dan, I had onsite interview this week with Amazon and your tips helped me better prepared and answer the questions. I don't know the result yet but i would like to thank you for your valuable guidance.
Hi Dan, Thanks a million for all your great insights. These tutorials are priceless. This video, in particular, is quite helpful because according to Amazon policy, no feedback is shared with the candidates that don't succeed in the loop interview. I would be curious to know if these notes taken frenetically by the interviewers are actually used for something? And for what reason, if you are not qualified to work for the company you don't even deserve to receive feedback? Quite peculiar, isn't it?
I've been watching so many of your videos, but every time I finish one there's another one. I guess that's what you want haha but it gets to a certain point where I'm thinking about so many things, what to do, what not to do, how to go about explaining something that it's doing more harm than good. Just be sincere, clear, focus on yourself, and try to demonstrate the leadership principles.
It's never been my intention to distract you from your interview prep; do you have your stories ready? have you role-played them with someone? so long as you know how to self-assess and you feel ready with these things you should be good to go.
@@DanCroitor Yea, of course, your videos have been helpful generally! This is more of a me problem, kinda thinking too much, to the point where I'm rather stressed out for my upcoming interview.
Hi Dan, thanks for your videos. Interesting how well prepared you should go on an interview. I had about 7 interviews and passed the Loop interview, however didn´t receive a call for a week. I was stranged as I was told they took 5 days to decide. I wrote my recruiter to ask if everything was OK and no reply. 15 days passed and no call back. I then ask the recruiter again and send message to hiring manager for a status of the process as I was about to receive an offer from another company. At the end they send me a polite email telling me I was not chosen. I was disappointed at myself as I thought I shouldn´t have asked and pressure was not well received...do you think so? . However I later realized that for my senior position probably an intern was selected. Anyways preparation helped me to the other interview which at this time points to be a success.
You give very valuable tips. Interview next week !! Found the videos invaluable. Better be over prepared. As I am very experienced in my field I assume people know a lot more 're what I have done/can do.
Dan your videos have been very helpful in helping me prepare for my onsite interview, which I had two days ago. I applied for an sde 1 position and i had 2 behavioural and 3 technical interviews. I also over used two stories because I could tell that there was a theme to my behavioural topics. It was around conflict resolution and disagreement with my seniors/colleagues. I didn't have many examples on these areas. I'll find out in five days if made it in.
GREAT video! Learned alot. Scenario Question that I think I failed: A guard is on lunch-break and I'm holding their post. An engineer calls to inform me that he smells smoke in the basement where he's at. At the same time a fire alarm goes off on the 3rd floor. What do I do? I answered; I report to FCS and contact the engineer. Tell him to investigate the smoke smell as quickly as possible then report to the FCS. I try to radio the guard to return to post and follow normal procedure after that. Please any suggestions....
My idea for this scenario: A guard is on lunch-break and I'm holding their post. An engineer calls to inform me that he smells smoke in the basement where he's at. At the same time a fire alarm goes off on the 3rd floor. What do I do? I answered; Suggestion: at this moment, I am in the role for the security guard, so, I am responsible for the security of the people inside the building. What I would do: 1. Contact 911 2. Trigger the alert system to inform all the people about a fire alarm to get out of the building 3. Contact the security guard as urgent People security is the main priority and we have 2 sensors triggered at the same time which means, the fire is real and it is not a false positive alarm. After people is safe, The Security team can begin to find out with more detail what could be the reason.
Had an onsite interview 8 months ago. I may have been blacklisted. I have applied for a few jobs recently at Amazon and received a rejection email exactly 36 hours after each attempt. This video shows what I may have done wrong but I really don' think I performed poorly enough to warrant that kind of treatment. What action should I take to get back in?
i have finished my onsite interview from Amazon there are asking 3 questions I said good answer yesterday when i will get hr round sir how much time taken
Hi there one question.... If one gives a completely wrong answer to a technical question which is supposed to be a basic questions and not very difficult one... Does this mean the candidate will or can be rejected from the LP round? Please advice
Same here. Did not prepare well for what Amazon want but prepared well what I can deliver. One needs to prepare what company wants instead of what they can deliver
@@askyella thank you for sharing your experience, would like to remind for anyone else reading this: definition of behavioral interviewing is they look at your past experiences to predict your performance on the job; the better your past experiences (read: your stories) the more likely you are to get a job offer with them.
Did you get rejection mail after the final interview? I attended Amazon interview by 11th November this year. Still now there is no update from them. How long it will take to get the outcome of my interview. I performed good on my interview by the way.
@@DanCroitor for Amazon lead operations but I can’t tell anyone where as it is top secret, but I’m very happy from start to finish I did 3 interviews one and then 2 30minute interviews back to back. One scenario then I got an email I was so scared thought it was a no but I got the job. About 2hours ago thank you
Who should I role play with if I don't know anybody who works for Amazon just watch videos I mean I seen someone who wanted me to pay them $350 for 60 minutes of role playing and I don't have a job right now and I just lost my business so I couldn't afford that
hey, Dan I got rejected by amazon today and recruiter give some remarks like: my stories were kind of lack of complexity and data. how should I interpret that ?
first, it's Amazon policy not to disclose why they rejected you; so if they did, and it wasn't because you overly insisted, then most likely you don't have enough experience for the role; also possible you didn't prep enough.. you should know this best.
@@DanCroitor thank you for taking time to reply to me Dan, really appreciate that, it was for an analytic role, and i didnt even get tested either on tool or skill, just 6 rounds pure BQ questions. I think it should due to poorly prepared stories.....anyway, I will move on, and by the way, really like your high quality videos and please keep it up! Merci beaucoup
Hi Dan! if I had the first phone interview and on the same day I received the rejection via email, is it possible that they will call me back for other opportunities? Can I re-apply? or in case they didn't like my answers, am I blacklisted now? Thanks
I don't think they will be calling you back but rather you should re-apply when you see something relevant. Some prefer to give it some time. I don't think they blacklist anyone for failing a phone screening round.
Thats exactly what i'm thinking... 5-8 hours of interview they need to be paying a fee for your time. They soak up all your ideas and methodologies and for many they don't offer a job. I bet they dont ask SVPs 5-8 hours worth of questions.
@@AshleyJackson-im6kz As someone who has worked for Amazon and seen their interview process from both sides, I can guarantee you that no one is "soaking up all your ideas". The questions asked are never directly relevant to the interviewers' jobs and are solely there to assess the candidate's skillset. Yes, long interviews suck, and not being paid for them is kinda BS, but rest assured that they are *not* using interviews for free labor. The only time I've interview *anywhere* that my work could have been used by the company, I was paid for it.
During my onsite 3 weeks ago, I used the same story 3 or 4 times because there were so much I could use from it. I didn't know it could disqualify me. Yet, I said to the interviewers: I already used this story before, I can tell you an older one or I can use the same story again but focused on another part. I was told to use the same story. In the end, I was selected, so I guess it is a good hint to ask them what they want to hear, at least shows your awareness of the situation and your worries about what they need from you.
At least this is what I learned from my onsite experience. I had even used this story on my phone screen interview but I told them during the onsite: I already said about this story before but a lot has changed, I don't want to have a mismatch from what I said previously and what I'm saying now.
Thanks for your vids, helped a lot!
Same here. Since I am still a student he said that's perfectly normal ;D haven't heard back yet though :O but the interview was only yesterday :) so we'll see
@@lunaticcoding how did it go?
Mike Alvarado didn’t get it 🥺 I bet it was the last behavioral interview 😶
@@lunaticcoding Hi Marco, hard luck... but is it possible to share some questions from your interview ? Thanks!
I used the same story in different ways and was offered a lead role
7. You didn't have answer to questions. You should go about finding answers
6. Didn't prepare enough failure stories. 3-5 suggested
5. You didn't role play your experience. Written answer vs spoken answer to coach
4. Repeated story over and over again, not diverse enough
3. You memorize things and when you went out of your comfort zone you stammered.
2. You didn't know why they ask the question in the first place
1. You simply gave poor answers
@Jack0 Trades You can watch on 1.25x speed.
TED z in that case you shouldn’t work in a global company. I am sure interviewers are in that position because of their accomplishments and not accent.
You were rejected because you were not meant to be there and life is telling you to go to a different direction. When one door is closed it means you were not suppose to go that way and you are one step closer to your goal!!!
Love your attitude
Love it 😀
I got hired right away after my onsite. Pre-interview with recruiter -> interview with engineering hiring manager -> 5 onsite interviews with last one being with the hiring manager again. I found being truthful helped a lot and goes a long way. I didn't really have experience working with IQ, OQ and PQ since I mainly worked with class 1 devices and not 2 and 3. Again, they asked if I knew what they were and said take a guess. I got close to the concept and ideas minus some extra stuff, but enough to pass I guess. Questions are usually hard because you need to get a feel during the interview and ask about the roll and expand upon those questions. My other interviews I got rejected, but it was probably because I didn't show that I was knowledgeable enough or lacked incite on certain topics due to the lack of exposure.
Upon reflecting on the interview the only hint I was able to pick up on was.
"Oh you don't need this on your resume or maybe next time when you're looking for a new job to leave it off."
Tough questions that seemed easy but were hard for me for the positions that I got rejected from were
-How do you define success?
-How do you measure that success?
I was referred by an Amazon employee who was also HM. I went through phone screens & Amazon loop (6 back to back interviews). I prepared my answers watching yours and few other’s vids. It was very helpful.
I didn’t get an offer but overall it was good experience. After watching this vid, I realized, I didn’t use all the stories from my list. I repeated few stories because I couldn’t remember the others on time. I also became nervous at system design interview.
The recruiter told me I can apply immediately for any other position I liked, but I’ll wait for six months at least.
Thanks for your help!
I appreciate your feedback, and wish you good luck!
i recently got rejected after my onsite. this was an interesting vid, thanks for uploading
I am a recent graduate, how many stories should I have about the almost exact same questions that come 3 to 4 times. It seems to me that many people just make up stories to appear like a good fit. Honesty is not being appreciated
I like this video, straight forward and got to the issue right away
Hi Dan! Want to provide an update, I was offered the position at Amazon and your videos were of great help! Thanks for all you do. :)
Congrats Shannon! and thanks for sharing.
Thank you for this video, very interesting
Hi Dan, I had onsite interview this week with Amazon and your tips helped me better prepared and answer the questions. I don't know the result yet but i would like to thank you for your valuable guidance.
Thank you for sharing your interview experience Krishna!
Hi Dan, Thanks a million for all your great insights. These tutorials are priceless. This video, in particular, is quite helpful because according to Amazon policy, no feedback is shared with the candidates that don't succeed in the loop interview. I would be curious to know if these notes taken frenetically by the interviewers are actually used for something? And for what reason, if you are not qualified to work for the company you don't even deserve to receive feedback? Quite peculiar, isn't it?
Just got rejected after final loop interview feel so much but I will keep going and get back one day to make my day one.
important to make a post mortem, to see what actually happened and where to improve
Great video thank you I need to watch more of your videos
I've been watching so many of your videos, but every time I finish one there's another one. I guess that's what you want haha but it gets to a certain point where I'm thinking about so many things, what to do, what not to do, how to go about explaining something that it's doing more harm than good. Just be sincere, clear, focus on yourself, and try to demonstrate the leadership principles.
It's never been my intention to distract you from your interview prep; do you have your stories ready? have you role-played them with someone? so long as you know how to self-assess and you feel ready with these things you should be good to go.
@@DanCroitor Yea, of course, your videos have been helpful generally! This is more of a me problem, kinda thinking too much, to the point where I'm rather stressed out for my upcoming interview.
@@thebabyshpee6508 No worries :) Good luck! and let me know how it goes.
Hi Dan, thanks for your videos. Interesting how well prepared you should go on an interview. I had about 7 interviews and passed the Loop interview, however didn´t receive a call for a week. I was stranged as I was told they took 5 days to decide. I wrote my recruiter to ask if everything was OK and no reply. 15 days passed and no call back. I then ask the recruiter again and send message to hiring manager for a status of the process as I was about to receive an offer from another company. At the end they send me a polite email telling me I was not chosen. I was disappointed at myself as I thought I shouldn´t have asked and pressure was not well received...do you think so? . However I later realized that for my senior position probably an intern was selected. Anyways preparation helped me to the other interview which at this time points to be a success.
I don't think that played a significant role.. but it would have been a minus in case you had to negotiate a job offer with them.
You give very valuable tips. Interview next week !! Found the videos invaluable. Better be over prepared. As I am very experienced in my field I assume people know a lot more 're what I have done/can do.
Good luck!
The essential yogi how did it go?!
@@amycraigslist4791 good. Will find out more later this week. All video interviews no one to one in person. I was disappointed 're that tbh
Hey Dan, how important is it to ask questions after the interview? What are your tips for this? Good questions/bad questions? Is it necessary?
Very important. Checkout latest videos
Dan your videos have been very helpful in helping me prepare for my onsite interview, which I had two days ago. I applied for an sde 1 position and i had 2 behavioural and 3 technical interviews. I also over used two stories because I could tell that there was a theme to my behavioural topics. It was around conflict resolution and disagreement with my seniors/colleagues. I didn't have many examples on these areas. I'll find out in five days if made it in.
Thank you for sharing your experience!
Unpopular opinion: you were too good to be there and made those already working there uncomfortable with your presence during your onsite interview
GREAT video! Learned alot. Scenario Question that I think I failed: A guard is on lunch-break and I'm holding their post. An engineer calls to inform me that he smells smoke in the basement where he's at. At the same time a fire alarm goes off on the 3rd floor. What do I do? I answered; I report to FCS and contact the engineer. Tell him to investigate the smoke smell as quickly as possible then report to the FCS. I try to radio the guard to return to post and follow normal procedure after that. Please any suggestions....
My idea for this scenario:
A guard is on lunch-break and I'm holding their post. An engineer calls to inform me that he smells smoke in the basement where he's at. At the same time a fire alarm goes off on the 3rd floor. What do I do?
I answered;
Suggestion: at this moment, I am in the role for the security guard, so, I am responsible for the security of the people inside the building.
What I would do:
1. Contact 911
2. Trigger the alert system to inform all the people about a fire alarm to get out of the building
3. Contact the security guard as urgent
People security is the main priority and we have 2 sensors triggered at the same time which means, the fire is real and it is not a false positive alarm.
After people is safe, The Security team can begin to find out with more detail what could be the reason.
Had an onsite interview 8 months ago. I may have been blacklisted. I have applied for a few jobs recently at Amazon and received a rejection email exactly 36 hours after each attempt. This video shows what I may have done wrong but I really don' think I performed poorly enough to warrant that kind of treatment. What action should I take to get back in?
I can't speak for them, but you might have been barred to reapply for 1 year; the 36 hour delay is bizarre.
i have finished my onsite interview from Amazon there are asking 3 questions I said good answer yesterday when i will get hr round sir how much time taken
Hi there one question.... If one gives a completely wrong answer to a technical question which is supposed to be a basic questions and not very difficult one... Does this mean the candidate will or can be rejected from the LP round? Please advice
Yep failed my interview at amazon (not enough failure stories :P).
Thank you Sebasian for sharing your experience
Same here. Did not prepare well for what Amazon want but prepared well what I can deliver. One needs to prepare what company wants instead of what they can deliver
@@askyella thank you for sharing your experience, would like to remind for anyone else reading this: definition of behavioral interviewing is they look at your past experiences to predict your performance on the job; the better your past experiences (read: your stories) the more likely you are to get a job offer with them.
Did you get rejection mail after the final interview? I attended Amazon interview by 11th November this year. Still now there is no update from them. How long it will take to get the outcome of my interview. I performed good on my interview by the way.
@@anchalimariappan8475 yep
Thank you for your help I was offered the job I applied for.
Congrats! may I know which company?
@@DanCroitor for Amazon lead operations but I can’t tell anyone where as it is top secret, but I’m very happy from start to finish I did 3 interviews one and then 2 30minute interviews back to back. One scenario then I got an email I was so scared thought it was a no but I got the job. About 2hours ago thank you
@@industrykids7719 no worries, I was just curious as I recently started receiving notes with job offers from other companies, too
Who should I role play with if I don't know anybody who works for Amazon just watch videos I mean I seen someone who wanted me to pay them $350 for 60 minutes of role playing and I don't have a job right now and I just lost my business so I couldn't afford that
you can post a request or contact someone on my website (for free)
hey, Dan I got rejected by amazon today and recruiter give some remarks like: my stories were kind of lack of complexity and data. how should I interpret that ?
first, it's Amazon policy not to disclose why they rejected you; so if they did, and it wasn't because you overly insisted, then most likely you don't have enough experience for the role; also possible you didn't prep enough.. you should know this best.
@@DanCroitor thank you for taking time to reply to me Dan, really appreciate that, it was for an analytic role, and i didnt even get tested either on tool or skill, just 6 rounds pure BQ questions. I think it should due to poorly prepared stories.....anyway, I will move on, and by the way, really like your high quality videos and please keep it up!
Merci beaucoup
Hi Dan! if I had the first phone interview and on the same day I received the rejection via email, is it possible that they will call me back for other opportunities? Can I re-apply? or in case they didn't like my answers, am I blacklisted now? Thanks
I don't think they will be calling you back but rather you should re-apply when you see something relevant. Some prefer to give it some time. I don't think they blacklist anyone for failing a phone screening round.
@@DanCroitorok thanks a lot, I thought I lost the only chance to be considered by them!
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Is an Amazon job really worth all that trouble?
Amazon warehouse associates don't go through this extended interview process. (Also, the Amazon minimum wage is $15/hour.)
They pay about the same as market not higher.
Thats exactly what i'm thinking... 5-8 hours of interview they need to be paying a fee for your time. They soak up all your ideas and methodologies and for many they don't offer a job. I bet they dont ask SVPs 5-8 hours worth of questions.
@@AshleyJackson-im6kz As someone who has worked for Amazon and seen their interview process from both sides, I can guarantee you that no one is "soaking up all your ideas". The questions asked are never directly relevant to the interviewers' jobs and are solely there to assess the candidate's skillset. Yes, long interviews suck, and not being paid for them is kinda BS, but rest assured that they are *not* using interviews for free labor. The only time I've interview *anywhere* that my work could have been used by the company, I was paid for it.
so picky these companies then once you are in you realise the are all rather average and do menial jobs .
What is bar raiser?
Did you get selected sir?