Multiple recruiters reached out to me to have me interview with Amazon. The recruiter told me that they had fully remote positions available and relocation would not be required. So, I started the online coding assessment for these positions which took two hours. I passed the assessment with no problem. After finishing the assessment the recruiter told me that they didn’t have any remote positions in that department and sent me a list of other opportunities that were not interesting. A week later, another Amazon recruiter reached out and said Amazon had an open position. I looked at the job description and thought it was a little more interesting, but required that I have experience developing a new system. I don’t have that experience so I told the recruiter. He said that’s fine. He also said that I need to take another online assessment because the previous online assessment was for SDE I. So, I did. Two hours later I finished it with no problems. Then, I proceeded to the final interview. It went well and the interviewer told me they would reach out with next steps in less than a week. I reached out to the recruiter a week later regarding the status and received no response. Two weeks later, still no response. Three weeks later the recruiter asked again if I had experience developing new systems. I told him no. He responded that I could not be considered for this position without that experience. A week later a third recruiter reached out and wanted me to interview for an Amazon affiliated company. I told him sure, but my interview process better be better than the one I finished recently. He asked how long ago the interview was and then proceeded to tell me that I was on a cool down period since I had already interviewed with Amazon. Overall, five hours of my time wasted with a forced hiring “cool down” because a recruiter couldn’t listen in the first place. Lessons learned: Amazon recruiters don’t listen, Amazon interview process is a waste of time, and to Amazon, interviewees are disposable.

There were a total of 2 rounds: The first round was with an SDE II on Data Structures/Algo - Leet code questions mainly The second rounds was with an SDM Behavioral/System Design - Leadership principles and past work experience impact.