![]() One on bit manipulation, one utilizing a Linked List, and one asking to explain a HashMap. My technical questions were unusually simple. ![]() I was barely sleeping and only had a few hours to study for the Amazon interview.īack then, intern candidates didn't go through full-day loops. Recursion, traversals, dynamic programming - yikes. They told frightening stories of their difficult technical questions. I had classmates who interviewed before me. It takes patience, determination and grit on par with an author trying to launch a book.īack in 2014, Amazon performed on-campus interviews for summer internships. You have to practice coding problems for months on end. You have to tenaciously study complex data structures and algorithms. Passing requires several hundred hours of preparation. In a full-day, 5 different interviewers grill you on technical and behavioral questions. THE JOURNEY BACK TO ME AMAZON SOFTWAREI admire every software engineer who's passed an interview loop at Amazon. I share it to help other impostors achieve success, whether in big tech or elsewhere. It's one of my favorite stories from my early career. My journey from SDE1 to SDE2 is similar to many, but rarely told. I shouldn't have been hired - I was an impostor.ĭespite my technical limitations, I eventually earned a promotion to Software Development Engineer 2. In 2015, Amazon hired me as a Software Development Engineer 1 (SDE1). I was recognized as one of the key technical leaders of my team. I taught hundreds as an internal course instructor. I designed, developed and deployed large scale software systems used by thousands of customers. I authored and shipped over 550 Pull Requests. Looking back, I'm quite proud of my accomplishments. ![]() This month would've marked my 7th year at Amazon.
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