Flunked Amazon Hackerrank. Should I still do the other assessments?
So I did the Hackerrank for Amazon's SDE 2026 grad role and it went pretty terribly. I passed 0 test cases on both questions 🥲
The first question wasn't too bad, but the instructions told me a bunch of variables and functions that didn't exist and I had to find the names of the equivalent function names in the existing code you usually don't need to look at. And I ran out of time but made lots of comments outlining my ideas and plan
The second question was AWFUL. It was Django which I've never used, working with an AI assistant to fix a bug in a comment algorithm. It felt less like I was actually debugging and more like I was vibe coding (vibe debugging?) everything while also trying to use my own intuition so I wasn't just outright asking the AI to solve it for me.
Obviously in an ideal world it's good experience to do the other stuff right? But in reality are they just going to reject the application for doing awfully on the Hackerrank?