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Date: Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 12:22 PM
Subject: Fwd: Amazon adds writing skills to the technical interview
To: Faculty <faculty@cs.washington.edu>, Cs-Grads <cs-grads@cs.washington.edu>, Cs-Ugrads <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>
A great move by Amazon.com!!!!!
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From: Justine
Date: Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 12:20 PM
Subject: Amazon adds writing skills to the technical interview
I’m visiting a good friend a UW CSE alumnae, Software Engineer at
Amazon) and she gave me an interesting tidbit on some new interview
practices they’re just starting for SDEs… she says they’ll soon be
requiring applicants to provide a *writing sample* as part of their
interview. The writing sample will be one page, on a typical interview
personality question (“Describe a time where you worked with someone
who was uncooperative”… etc), due two days before the interview.
I now have a little more ground to tell the undergrads I talk to to
quit whining when they talk about humanities and English classes…
😉