I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in May 2016
Interview
Recruiter contacted me and process took around 1 month.
1) phone scree
2) onsite - total 5 interviews and lunch.
Good experience and good accommodation provided in Seattle WA.
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Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Signed NDA. But the questions were simple if you have studied properly. Interview question topics
1) Linked list - very simple question
2) Dial pad string generation / autocomplete related
3) System design - be prepared to design database etc from scratch ... basically prepare by thinking deeply in designing any system/components. Which means you need to specify which data structures to use, what will be work flow, how the concurrency and scale will be handled.
4) Leadership - study Amazon principles. Many questions on mentoring juniors.
5) Behavioral
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Madrid) in Jan 2024
Interview
Recruiter send me an OA and even I did'nt attend it yet, she told me that I failed. After some research they notice they screen my previous OA result. I don't like this lack of system.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
First there was the recruiter interview to gather some information. Followed by 5 rounds "on-site remote" with average difficulty, but with some poor performing interviewers. Got denied and was promised feedback but got ghosted.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- 2 algorithms - 1 System design - 1 Past experience software architecture and choices - 1 Code challenge - implement a validator
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Jun 2022
Interview
Typical Amazon procedure: recruiter reaches out. This time, instead of just clicking the delete button, I was actually intrigued with the team: their LEO satellite group.
Pretty much breezed through the HR interview, and then proceeded to the first-round screen. I aced the coding part, and thought I said everything they wanted to hear (coding solution, the (now 16, used to be 14!) Leadership Principles they seem to drink like Kool-Aid over there. Signs pointed to going to the next round of interviewing.
Alas, they passed on me, while continuing to hide behind their veil of non-accountability. Well, I'm done with these Darwin clowns. There are many other good opportunities out there, that are NOT Amazon!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Linked-list question (aced it)
Find all 2x2 sub-arrays inside a larger array (didn't get to that, but I'm sure it's on Leetcode somewhere).
Post-word: I got approached by Amazon twice since then. No thanks!
