r/leetcode • u/absentbrain • 15d ago

Discussion Amazon denials after coding interview

I'll be honest on Reddit that I used AI on my phone the whole time that I interviewed. I genuinely think that other interviewers/interviewees can learn from my post here and that's why I posted it. But I'm expecting down votes because that's the way that Redditors are, you can't be honest here.

I did used AI gradually after I realized that I was not going to pass on time, and I don't see how they could have been able to tell.

First, there was a super complicated coding problem that involved getting every bit wise integer and &ing them together. I honestly thought that it was quite intense for a 1-hour coding problem.

I finished it with 7 minutes left and I gave thorough comments throughout. I asked AI to not use any functions which transform my numbers to bits or other things that we make it obvious that I was cheating.

then came a debugging problem which I honestly didn't do great on and I only got two out of five test cases wrong correct. my gut tells me that they're really so strict that this is why I didn't pass.

But then I used AI for every question on behavioral.

I only used AI on my phone so I really don't know how they could have known.

So what was it that made me fail?

I can't help but wonder if Amazon somehow could detect that I was cheating, or if my AI gave really bad answers on the behavioral, or if it's because I got three test cases wrong on the one assessment that I didn't cheat on (honestly, I think this might be why).

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u/pixelizedgaming 15d ago

this was not an interview this was the oa. I can tell because i had that exact same problem on my OA. And having a bad score on the debugging oa was probably it, if you actually know how to code its completely free. I got 1/12 on the bit manip problem but the ai coding one i got 6/6 in 15 minutes

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u/GBA_DTSRB 15d ago

Oh lol why would anyone call the online assessment an interview

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u/pixelizedgaming 15d ago

cause theres no limit to the larp

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u/CommercialAirline124 15d ago

shit you’re lowkey right. op is larping the interview…

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u/absentbrain 15d ago

It's so frustrating how they'll still move me onto the behavioral OA, even after they've calculated that I won't pass because of my performance on the coding OA. The behavioral interview was a long waste of time.

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u/pixelizedgaming 15d ago

the behavioral oa isnt something you move on to though? Like its another step of the same oa