Amazon Software Engineer Senior interview questions

The interview took an hour, most of it was dedicated to a coding exercise. I heard many times about not very favorable atmosphere at Amazon and now I completely can understand why. I was given a concrete task and I think I offered the most efficient solution for it The interviewer rejected it saying it will not work. I went through the code serval times, and tried to get a hint from the reviewer why it would not, not avail. Just "No". Then I tried to explain line by line why it would work and the interviewer just went ballistic. I should have used his algorithm ! ( which I think is more verbose and less efficient) There was zero efforts to try understanding the proposed solution and whole " I am always right" attitude Surely one example is not a representation of the whole company, but I can only imagine what conditions software developers find themselves if they accept offers and find this situation in their teams. I will probably not get an offer, but I would not accept it if I got it.

Amazon's interview process is a thorough one. You go through 8 loops in a day, at least, including one by a bar raiser. Make sure you brush up on your algorithms and data structures skills, it'll be intense.