I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon in Feb 2021
Interview
My recruiter gave me a list of subjects to brush up on before my interview like BST, BFS, DFS, tree traversals, etc. None of which were ever mentioned in the interview.... Instead, my interviewer asked me to solve some silly little puzzle that he had found on the Internet. Just pathetic, AWS really needs to revamp their interview process and guidelines.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Solve some silly puzzle on stacks that my interviewer found on the Internet which was completely irrelevant from what my recruiter told me to study up on.
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Sunnyvale, CA) in Jun 2020
Interview
First engineering manager interview followed by onsite virtual technical interviews (5-6) engineers.
Get feedback pretty quick. Normally after 2-3 days. They asked a lot of culture & behavior related questions which sometimes you need to prepare well,
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Coding questions are more related to the cases to resolve cases found in daily practice.
I passed three phone interviews, this it took over two months. then I went to the in person interview at Amazon office in Seattle. This was before Covid19 . It was a whole day interview process. I talked to my team in the morning and then had lunch with one of the interviews, a nice guy. It was quite stressful, though. Then I had one more interview session. It was exhausting
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked about a problem I had in a previous job.