I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (São Paulo, ) in Mar 2016
Interview
The hing process at Amazon consist of the following tree phases
1 - Telephone Interview (Competency Based) 45 minutes
2 - Telephone Interview (Competency Based) 45 minutes
3 - In-house Interview (Competency Based)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time when you need to sacrifice short term gains to get better gain in a long term.
Tell me about when you have a divergence with you superior and how do you solve this.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Amazon in Jun 2015
Interview
I was reffered through my friend who had joinned Amazon. It took me two months to get the interview but once it got the call rest of it was on fast track
2 rounds of telephonic
Starts from basic programming
Coding via online tools
then F2F
I decided not to take it forward as i had got another offer by then
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- Set a row and column of the matrix to zero if any/all of the elements of the row/column contains a zero.
- Find duplicate node in a signly linked list
- Find the largest palindrome in a string. (Dynamic Programming problem)
- Add two linked lists.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2016
Interview
No phone conversation with recruiter. No recruiter contact at the beginning or end of the interview. Had one informational interview via phone. Had one phone screen via phone, had one in-person with 5 interviewers over 5 hours. The interviews focused solely on behavioral questions. Between all 6, none ever accepted my answers at face value and continued to dig and probe, always repeating what I said, but incorrectly, and asking me to elaborate again. It was almost as if they were intentionally repeating it wrong in order to elicit a reaction. I was not asked a single coding question. I was asked if I was familiar with the product, to which I answered in the affirmative, but there was no probing.into what I had done with it. I got the impression that if I knew nothing about it, it would not have mattered. As of this writing, I am still waiting to hear back. I also had to write a 4 page report detailing the invention I was most proud of.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about the worst employee you ever hired
Tell me about the best employee you ever hired
Tell me how you would approach development of a greenfield project where all the work as an open slate, and you had a list of features to be delivered in 6 months
Tell me about a project you started where halfway through, you realized you made the wrong decision
Tell me about a time when one of your employees did something you disagreed with.
Tell us about a time when you had to work through multiple layers in an organization.