I am an Enterprise Architect with over 20 years of experience in IT. I recently interviewed for a Senior Solutions Architect role at Amazon, which consisted of a phone screening with another Senior Solutions Architect. The questions covered both behavioral and technical aspects, and I felt confident that I handled them well. Despite this, I received an email stating that I was not being considered for the next steps. This result was surprising and frustrating, especially after feeling positive about the interview.

The interview process started with a prep call with the recruiter. This was unique as they provided you with an outline of how the process of interviewing would go and gave you clear direction of what the interviewers would ask and are looking for. This took about 30 minutes After the recruiter prep call, another interview was setup a week later. This was supposed to be the hiring manager but was with changed to an integration specialist as well as someone who was shadowing the call. The interviewers did not care about my background and even cut me off and told me they already read my resume when I was providing an introduction of myself. They were only concerned with their set of questions and getting answers from me. It was very cold. The interviewers also had a level of arrogance to them as they challenged how things operated within my current company and felt that what I explained to them could not of been right. The impression of the 2nd interview felt like I was a burden to these gentlemen and they wanted to hurry through the process. They also did not ask questions that aligned to the prep call with the recruiter. Definitely a disconnect in expectations. The recruiter provided a great experience where the interviewers did not.