Should I bother with Amazon On Site Interview for SDE II?
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I am currently employed. I have many years of experience as a developer, but it is pretty bad experience. My current role I support a legacy system that is not impressive at all.

I took the Amazon online assessment, did well enough to skip the phone screen (I had failed the phone screen at Amazon last year, pretty sure I failed my second Facebook phone screen today...) and be invited to an on site.

If I don't fail the tech part of the interviews, I think I would fail the LC questions. There is very little conflict where I am, my manager does not ever raise any concerns with me, I am constantly praised. Since I do my work pretty independently and don't work on big projects with other developers, I don't have many teamwork stories. I have very little deadlines or pressure to finish things. I do my work well, and accomplish a lot of things, but nothing is exciting or impressive.

Should I even bother with Amazon? From what I read on Blind, here, and talking with people, it sounds like I may get eaten alive there. I know I could make up stories for LC, but I am a bad liar and they will see through me quickly.

I would like to do the interview just for practice, but I don't know if I should kill myself to study...

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