# Five Rounds at Amazon. Three at Two Startups. Then a Hint Ended Microsoft.

**[TRUE STORY]** — by Candidate · via r/developersIndia

Five years of experience, most recently at Atlassian, until the layoff two months ago. Since then, by his account: Amazon, five rounds, rejected. Two startups, three rounds each, rejected. Microsoft, where the high-level design and low-level design feedback was good, but the data structures round went negative after he accepted a hint.

He has been studying every day. The pattern he describes is not a lack of preparation. It is that one weak round, in one loop, at one of several companies, is now enough to end the whole thing.

*Source: [r/developersIndia · post](https://www.reddit.com/r/developersIndia/comments/1xild6j/demotivated_after_getting_laid_off_multiple/)*
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