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by od2m 4617 days ago
I interviewed for Lab 126 (like everyone else on the internet). I was really excited about the prospect but the guy giving the interview had an attitude problem and was completely uninterested in the process.

He insisted on grilling me on a metaphor in my personal statement as if it were literally true. I honestly don't know if he was trying to piss me off, or was (slightly) autistic and didn't understand metaphors. Once I'd gotten him off that, I mentioned I had a friend who worked at Lab 126, which he was also completely uninterested in. When your interviewer isn't interested in the fact that someone you worked with for 5 years works down the hallway from him? You're not getting that job. It was pretty clear a decision had been made against me before the interview ever took place and Amazon was just wasting my time.

Left a bad taste in my mouth.