J'ai postulé via un recruteur. J'ai passé un entretien chez Amazon en août 2013
Entretien
Recruiter scheduled the interview.
- First round of interview. All high level development and design questions and description of experiences, challenges in job , and 1 online algorithmic coding session. All went well.
-Selected for second round of interview. 1 online algorithmic coding session. Solved it recursively. Interviewer asked to do it iteratively. Solved it iteratively as well. Run time complexity was o(n). Have been asked to make it more efficient if possible. I was a bit confused. So, interview provider hints and I got what he was asking for. I explained him and he was satisfied.
He, kind of provided hints positively to be ready for the next round.
I assumed final onsite interview. So was preparing for it. :)
After few days, Recruiter sent email that the team decided to go with another candidate.
What the heck!
Second round of interview was better than first round. Despite better performance, still not selected. Really Discouraging. Now don't even want to think of joining Amazon, I deserve Google. :)
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
It was not difficult. The result wast unexpected that despite my better performance in the second round of interview, I was not selected for another round
Surprisingly easy — I expected tougher questions, but the coding round felt more like a warm-up. The main challenge was a DSA problem about counting islands in a 2D grid, which led to a discussion on DFS versus BFS and handling large grids. Funny enough, I had revisited that exact type of question while prepping on PracHub, which made me feel more confident. The interview wrapped up with a behavioral round, and I accepted an offer, but ultimately decided to decline it for another opportunity. Overall, it was a smooth experience.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Number of Islands — given a 2D grid of '1's (land) and '0's (water), count the number of connected islands. Walk through DFS vs BFS, and discuss how to avoid revisiting cells (in-place mutation vs visited set) and what changes if the grid is huge and must stream from disk.
It started with an OA, and then after a few weeks, I got invited to four rounds of interviews: technical and behavioral at 3 of the 4, and behavioral only at one.
Um teste de código online, se aprovado, vai para o loop. O loop é 4 entrevistas seguidas, duas em inglês e duas em português. 3 entrevistas técnicas de código, todas as 4 têm pergunta de liderança.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Pergunta historicas baseada nos principios de lideranca da amazon.