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by bparanj 3634 days ago
Too many changes in who will interview. This shows that they are not organized.

They expect you to use your magic wand to make their problems go away.

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Ha, Amazon's AWS fits. Didn't call on the agreed date for phone interview. Then when visiting on-site, future manager, probably the main person I should have been talking to, wasn't there. Quickly assembled together an interview schedule in 20 min with people who , except maybe two, seemed distracted and just wanted to go do something else. Forgot about me during lunch. So was left sitting in an office for an hour without anyone checking on me (eventually got up and started wondering the hallways hoping someone would stop me and ask me -- "Hey I don't think you belong here" and I was hoping to reply with a silly joke about trying to steal AWS's root CA private keys). Then of course they promised to call back with a decision in 2 days, which was more like 2 weeks. Didn't get an offer, no surprise (I did get snarky about the "leadership principles", they probably didn't appreciate that), but it did make a good story I like to tell every time interviews come up.
If you have to pull their head out of their ass during the interview process, you will have to do it everyday several times. It is better not to work there. If they give you an offer, give an outrageous salary range as your compensation to work in that kind of environment.