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Discussion on: I am AWS Obsessed but I can't get hired at AWS. Have you ever faced such repeated rejection?

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Morley Abbott

You know, Aurora is now building out a dev team in Toronto. If those solutions architects don't see you fitting the position well, maybe a straight up AWS dev role is a better idea. You're clearly passionate about the space.

Not my cup of tea, personally, but there's a couple of guys on that team I really respect. One former teammate of mine that I really liked working with.

Also important: how are you doing on your Amazon leadership principle questions in interviews? You know those "tell me about a time" questions they ask you? Every time, there's a specific LP they've been told to get data points on. If you're unintentionally bombing those questions, it doesn't matter how technically skilled you are. Go read up on those LPs and have a good, unique story ready for how you have lived that LP twice over. Source: Amazon interviewer with nearly 100 interviews completed.

And if you (or anyone else) is interested in working on machine learning and data platforms inside the Amazon warehouses, my team is hiring. mabbo at company name. (We do ML to make smarter decisions and reduce the amount of work needed.)

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Andrew Brown 🇨🇦

I have never made it to even talk about LP. The one phone screening I had was purely technical and I was surprised by no LPs.