I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Cambridge, East of England, England)
Interview
The recruting organizer didn’t care about my location in and didn’t specify time zone for the interview.
The very first interview was with a team lead , no screening before. It looked like the lead didn’t even know that such a position exists.
None of my questions about position were answered.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The very first interview was with a senior engineer (no screening, no job explanation, etc). He didn’t give me introductions about himself and couldn’t explain me anything about position, saying that he doesn’t even know that it exist...
First 30 minutes were random behavior questions and every time in the end he was asking to give concrete example on what did you do in that particular case. I felt that he didn’t listen to me. Last half an hour was a simple coding task with an additional question on adding another small feature. There were no questions or comments on the code except 1 small syntax error.
The coding task was to find number of words separated by a space.
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.