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Everyone knows that interviews are imperfect and interviewers even more so. It is mostly about getting a question which you have seen before. However, what piqued my interest is "recruiter saying that I was rejected because....". How does one get such specific feedback on their interview? Throughout my career all I ever got was "unfortunately we do not share feedback".

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The secret of these big places is that some corners really suck. Although they have incredible, warm, intelligent people, they also have a lot of immature people, too, who who have solid cognitive ability, but don't necessarily have a lot of heart, capacity for introspection, or general kindness and merely care about working and getting ahead. People who are immature do what they're asked and put their heads down to be successful, but can be egoistic when around people they are interviewing, when around less senior colleagues, or around more senior colleagues they don't report to (due to jealousy). Although there are awesome, wonderful people, too, I would try not to take it too hard. If you're a Ph.D. and as smart as you sound like you are, another role with a different group either inside or outside of Amazon will make you much happier in the long term (though I can relate to how much of a bummer it can be to not get to be a part of a place that you want to be a part of).

Amazons work culture is not warm or friendly. It is cutthroat,stack ranked, bar raising, judgmental, up or out, and chaotic.

> can be egoistic when around people they are interviewing, when around less senior colleagues, or around more senior colleagues they don't report to (due to jealousy).

100%. Amazon is known for an organizational culture strongly oriented toward this kind of behavior (textbook sociopathy, btw).

Amazon VP Resigns, Calls Company ‘Chickenshit’ for Firing Protesting Workers

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https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3bjpj/amazon-vp-tim-bray...

Thanks for sharing

> However, what piqued my interest is "recruiter saying that I was rejected because....". How does one get such specific feedback on their interview?

The answer is simple: you don't. The OP already downgraded his claim to stating he took a one-liner remark made by the recruiter as feedback regarding for his entire performance. Even taking OP's comment at face value, and even believing that recruiters debrief candidates regarding their performance, a single sentence does not cover nor summarize a multi-stage interview.

I explicitly asked the recruiter and she said they don't share feedback, however ... and she shared feedback

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