I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2018
Interview
4 interviews in total. Everything was perfectly organized. All interviews started with behavioral questions regarding famous leadership principles. When you talk about your experience, they really go very deep. So you can’t get by with shallow examples, don’t even think about talking about things you don’t really know well.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There was one question where I wasted half of time figuring out if it’s an algorithm question or system design question. I continuously asked questions to clarify that and it took 20min or so to understand that it’s an algorithm question... Sometimes even that is not clear from given requirements
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Sep 2018
Interview
I really didn't enjoy the whole process of the interview. I think the recruiter is unprofessional and the interview is a waste of my time.
My friend referred me. One recruiter contacted me a few days later. She asked me about my availability of the next two weeks. So I arranged my schedule and gave her several time slots that work for me.
But then she sent me an online assessment a couple hours later and asked me to finish within a week. I was a little confused - why you asked about my availability and then gave me an online test? But at this point, I just finished the online test. It's 2 hours long. It's not a small time investment. All my test cases passed for the two questions and I submitted on time.
The recruiter then disappeared. Finally, I emailed her asking about how the review process goes. She replied with a template saying they've moved on with other candidates. She has been using all kinds of templates throughout the whole process. I don't feel I was talking to a real person tbh. I haven't spoken with any real person at all during the whole process.
This is a really poor experience. I don't recommend people waste time to interview with Amazon.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
get a list of K place that is closest to [0, 0] in a 2d array
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2017
Interview
Multiple interviews with software engineer to discuss the position and to test technical ability. The engineer talked about how wonderful he was and seemed to be trying to convince me that working in AWS would be great. Was not looking to see if I was a good fit.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How to code a search algorithm. There was a trick to it. So when I did not get the correct answer the engineer was dismissive.