Well, I failed the virtual onsite Amazon Proserve interview. I thinking it was due to one or two of the behavioral interviews. I veered too much from STAR on one and might have been too honest about my faults on another one...

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I can't offer advice, but I can commiserate. There have been jobs that I know I would have been absolutely perfect for and that I would have actually enjoyed, but I'd always get one thing wrong. Since when is 98% not enough?

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Also, for another interviewer, I didn't know two the answers to two technical questions and I got one wrong that I know of. This one was a bunch of rapid-fire short answer questions, so I thought I overall did OK on that interview. He did say that it's better to say you don't know an answer than to make something up...

OP - I’m sorry. Hope the next one with other team goes well. Was this your 2nd virtual on-site? The one with 3-4 rounds?

Veered too much from STAR? Nonsense. Behavioral questions aren't about talking in bullet points, they're about conveying who you are. If you managed to do that, you did fine.

Well, at Amazon I think they're very serious about hitting all the bullet points. With the one interviewer, I would hit all the points except for R and she would just wait there and finally say, "and the result was?"

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