u/Miserable_Draw_6452

I'm about to have my first ever Amazon SDE3 interview, and it's on Chime. As such, i'm not very familiar with how the tool i tested last weekend behaves under five rounds back to back.

Edit: Forgot to mention i did a practice call with a friend on zoom to test it first, the suggestions felt fast and the box was tiny.

Is the interview purely technical with one LP round? As in i'll spend most of the day on coding plus one behavioral block. Or is it more evenly split? If so, how does the tool handle the LP prompts versus the coding prompts during the same day?

I've been preparing by doing the LC Amazon tagged top 100, prewriting STAR examples mapped to specific Leadership Principles, and i've rehearsed system design questions with a coworker from AWS a couple of times. Really focused on being able to keep talking through silences. I also have one paid practice interview with an ex Amazon bar raiser scheduled for thursday evening.

Any information about how InterviewMan holds up across the five round Amazon day, especially the bar raiser round, is appreciated. Thank you!

At my second office job, I still trusted people a lot and thought that people at work had each other's backs.

There was one female colleague who was always nice to me, and we were a small group that would go out to get coffee or lunch about three times a week. We joked around, talked about weekend plans, and all the usual stuff, while still getting our work done.

After about a week, I noticed she wasn't coming in anymore, and she hadn't said she'd be absent or that she was taking leave. I asked a few people if they knew what had happened, and everyone acted strangely. I kept hearing vague answers like "I don't know" or "I haven't heard anything," and they made me feel like I was prying just for asking.

A little while later, I found out she had been fired after a disagreement with one of the department leads. After that, no one ever mentioned her again. It was as if her name had been erased from the office. And this was after months of having lunch together, joking around, and something that honestly seemed like real camaraderie.

That was the moment I understood the workplace environment much better. Now I'm friendly and professional, but I don't confuse that with friendship. I go to work, do my job as well as I can, and don't expect more from work than my salary. Real friends can come from other places in life.