A Student Used AI to Beat Amazon’s Brutal Technical Interview. He Got an Offer and Someone Tattled to His University
- Roy Lee built an AI system that bypasses FAANG’s brutal technical interviews and says that the work of most programmers will be obsolete in two years.
By Matthew Gault Published March 4, 2025
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Lee recorded his entire technical interview with Amazon and posted the whole thing, uncut, on YouTube. Then they made him an offer. He rejected it. For Lee, the point was proving that Interview Coder worked, not passing a technical interview and landing a position.
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Good for him. Ethical shmethical. Columbia is probably just pissed that they lost their market for over-priced computer science grads. AMAZON just got embarrassed on YouTube.
Looks like we old programmers got ours and got out before the robot uprising?
Wonder if AI does FORTRAN and COBOL?
I think my 360 Assembler experience is still unique. Too many ways to hide the methods in registers and absolute / relative addressing. And no English language for AI to analyze.
Laugh!
P.S., The Gooferment and Big Banks still use COBOL. Too much invested in it and too hard to recode. I did a FORTRAN retrieval for one oil company that manage to misplace the FORTRAN source code for their refinery control code. So there should still be work for us fat old white guy retired injineer who’s a poor old senior citizen on a fixed income to “save the day” as Mighty Mouse would say.
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