[sp527]

There's a magical escape hatch for this known as "I can't quite recall". The truth is most interviewers don't know how to properly evaluate the authenticity of a story and won't accord it much weight relative to the coding challenges anyway. You'll probably get through if you can pass the Leetcode portion and just bullshit well enough on the behavioral.

[cyanydeez]

All the police procedural propaganda makes people over estimate how well they'd discern fact from fiction.

[BeetleB]

> There's a magical escape hatch for this known as "I can't quite recall".

Indeed. I don't know how Amazon would evaluate that, but one probably should be wary if the candidate knew much of the details.

Except they shouldn't, because Amazon forces you to come prepared with these stories, and penalize you if you don't come prepared with these stories.