Amazon software engineer interview
This is totally crazy to me. Why should somebody lose about a month of his life to prepare for the interview? Why should the interview need preparation at all? The whole point of the interview is lost if you read books and prepare for that since you are not tested for your real on-the-work skills but you are tested for your interview-answering skills, memorizing trick questions and solving toy problems!<p>I think that this whole interview business is bad for both the candidate <i>and</i> the company (that would hire an interview cruncher instead of somebody who can produce work). Of course it is good for everybody else that promotes this kind of thinking (hr people, interview books, interview coaches, recruiters etc).<p>The whole process as described in this article is offensive to me. I don&#x27;t want to prove myself by answering trick questions to people whose only skill is asking them! It&#x27;s too bad we have dropped to that point.<p>(Please forgive my English - not my native language)