I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seúl) in May 2021
Interview
I applied to the AWS Next Gen Intern program for Seoul. After sending in my application, I took an assessment. Around 3 weeks later, I had a 30 minute phone interview with one of the recruitment officers. We spoke in Korean and the conversation was really relaxed overall. After 3 days, I received an email to schedule for the final round of interviews. The final interview was a loop process, where you have three 1:1 30-minute long interviews back-to-back with three different interviewers. The first interview will be a business case presentation (you will be given one week to prepare), and the other two will ask questions about your CV and Amazon leadership principles.
45 minutes of behavioral questions and 15 minutes of coding a simple question (LC Easy). Thought it went well but I didn't get it. Glassdoor is a scam too if you didn't know already.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
code the atoi function in whatever language you want
Extremely rude interviewer.
Firstly she gave me a question about a department that I wasn't interviewing for as "it seemed like I had lots of experience in X (don't want to disclose it for anonymity)"- I thought this was bit strange but understandable. She then asked me to tell her what I know about Amazon- my research on the company and news stories about it I knew etc. She then asked me who their target market was, and in the middle of my answer she stopped me and implied I was an inauthentic person for 5 mins of my 30 min phone screening- she said " We only want authentic people here- I don't want to hear anything you've researched or that's on our website, I want to get to know about you" - how is asking who your target market is and specifically about my research on the company a way to get to know me? Those aren't very subjective questions that would allow you to really get to know someone and would allow them to show their authenticity- my problem is not with the questions asked, as I would understand why you want to know someone's research on the company, but the way I was treated and basically called inauthentic ( she told me they only want "authentic people"). I then only had one behavioural question asked as time ran out after her rant.
They also never sent me a direct rejection email afterwards, just a feedback request.
Extremely rude interviewer who's logic just didn't make sense. Would not recommend at all.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- Who is our target market?
- What do you know about Amazon, tell me news stories, products etc that you know
- What is your proudest achievement?