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 through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Sídney) in Jan 2016
Interview
It was done in a hotel in Sydney. My interview took almost 5 hours with 4 different teams. Every team focused in a special skill. The first one was about analyzing a cloud system and providing a high level component design. The second interview was about OOP concepts. The Third one about detail data structures, algorithms and code implementation. And the last one more focused on complex data structures and behavioral questions. Generally, the interview was difficult and challenging.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A problem related to memory management system and the required data structures and algorithms
I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Amazon in Nov 2015
Interview
I had an interview with the manager and he said that I will be contacted for the on-site review. After a few days, a recruiter called me saying that the salary I am receiving in my current job is too high for them?! She then sent me an email and I noticed that the position is for SDE II. I replied to that email saying that I had applied for Sr SDE. She replied saying that they decided to go with SDE II without telling me?! I said I will not continue and no reply. This company looks like treating people as some piece of paper.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me what you are doing and why you want to join my team.