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Describe a situation where you were expecting one thing and something different happened. Tell me about a time when you did not have sufficient time or ability to evaluation all of the alternatives to a decision you had to make.
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Technical Program Manager

Interviewed at Amazon Robotics

3.5
Jun 27, 2014

Describe a situation where you were expecting one thing and something different happened. Tell me about a time when you did not have sufficient time or ability to evaluation all of the alternatives to a decision you had to make.

Kiva Systems builds robotic warehousing automation systems for Amazon fulfillment centers. Best question I had was to consider how one would go about testing that the software controlling how the robots restocked bins in the warehouse were working correctly.
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Technical Program Manager

Interviewed at Amazon Robotics

3.5
Oct 3, 2014

Kiva Systems builds robotic warehousing automation systems for Amazon fulfillment centers. Best question I had was to consider how one would go about testing that the software controlling how the robots restocked bins in the warehouse were working correctly.

In addition to the expection of working long hours (12 hours a day), the expectation of the director was that when you travelled on business, you had to work on thing in transit too regardless of time differences. To quote him "Time difference and travel time is not acceptable excuse to not attend meetings". At that point, I decided they wanted a slave, not an employee so I did not pursue further.
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Technical Program Manager

Interviewed at Samsung Electronics

3.7
Jun 4, 2013

In addition to the expection of working long hours (12 hours a day), the expectation of the director was that when you travelled on business, you had to work on thing in transit too regardless of time differences. To quote him "Time difference and travel time is not acceptable excuse to not attend meetings". At that point, I decided they wanted a slave, not an employee so I did not pursue further.

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