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Recruiter Gave a Last-Minute Ultimatum for the Only Onsite Slot

AmazonSoftware Engineer · Onsite · Sep 2025

I still don't know why they gave me SDE1 despite having 1.5 years of experience. The recruiter was toxic — no response the day I reached out, and then the next morning, before I was even out of bed, they called me and said there was only one interview slot available, and if that didn't work for me they'd just reject me. So I basically got pushed into it with no time to prepare. I interviewed last…

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