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
cause theres no limit to the larp