Technical Screen

Distracted Interviewer Nitpicks a Binary Search

AmazonSoftware Engineer · Technical Screen · Jun 2026

First off, the interviewer was 30 minutes late. The scheduled time was already inconvenient, and then he pulls this on top of it. He started by going over my resume, and we talked for over half an hour. The interviewer was obviously distracted the whole time, kept asking me to re-explain things I had already explained, and wasted a lot of time going back and forth like that. Then out of nowhere h…

Shared by a candidate · reported Jun 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.