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by nikki-9696 3627 days ago
He has a footnote that the blog post was discussed. I'm sure nothing important was revealed. Frankly, there wasn't a whole lot to the article that I haven't read elsewhere anyway. No trade secrets there. Amazon wants people who, unlike me, don't find data structures and algorithms to be boring and sleep-inducing. That's about it.
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I wouldn't say that's what Amazon "wants", and often the interviews have little correlation with the actual job.

We all know the interview process (across many companies) is a difficult / broken process. I think it gets even more difficult with scale the size of Google, Amazon, etc. How do you offer a consistent candidate experience and stable hiring bar without severely limiting the number of candidates processed or eating up too much developer time?

I'm sure we could find a dozen threads already discussing this on HN though.

None of the people he mentions are from Amazon, I don't think.