I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Vancouver, BC) in Mar 2017
Interview
It was a 6 sessions interview, two managers, two very experieced devs and two other devs, with an escape for lunch with a friendly manager from another team. They were two algorithm problems, three three design questions, all very interesting, the exhausting part for me was the very focused behavioral questions which sounded somehow repetitive but always different. They were are nice and friendly, overall was a great experience, I thought I did great, I was pretty disappointed I didn't get in, not by the result in itself but mostly by the fact I don't know exactly what I've done wrong.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Algorithm question about parsing a matrix to identify some shapes
Design a cache
Relation with your manager
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Madrid) in Jan 2024
Interview
Recruiter send me an OA and even I did'nt attend it yet, she told me that I failed. After some research they notice they screen my previous OA result. I don't like this lack of system.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
First there was the recruiter interview to gather some information. Followed by 5 rounds "on-site remote" with average difficulty, but with some poor performing interviewers. Got denied and was promised feedback but got ghosted.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- 2 algorithms - 1 System design - 1 Past experience software architecture and choices - 1 Code challenge - implement a validator
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Jun 2022
Interview
Typical Amazon procedure: recruiter reaches out. This time, instead of just clicking the delete button, I was actually intrigued with the team: their LEO satellite group.
Pretty much breezed through the HR interview, and then proceeded to the first-round screen. I aced the coding part, and thought I said everything they wanted to hear (coding solution, the (now 16, used to be 14!) Leadership Principles they seem to drink like Kool-Aid over there. Signs pointed to going to the next round of interviewing.
Alas, they passed on me, while continuing to hide behind their veil of non-accountability. Well, I'm done with these Darwin clowns. There are many other good opportunities out there, that are NOT Amazon!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Linked-list question (aced it)
Find all 2x2 sub-arrays inside a larger array (didn't get to that, but I'm sure it's on Leetcode somewhere).
Post-word: I got approached by Amazon twice since then. No thanks!
