Me postulé a través de un reclutador. El proceso tomó más de 1 semana. Acudí a una entrevista en Amazon (Allentown, PA) en ago 2016
Entrevista
A recruiter reached out to be through LinkedIn. We traded a few messages then set up a phone screen after I sent him a copy of my resume and my contact details. The recruiter asked about my previous experience and where I saw my career headed. After about 30 minutes of casual banter where he asked about my experience and I asked about the position the recruiter thanked me for my time and we hung up.
A day later I received an email from the recruiter asking for a time when I could spend an hour speaking with a team member. The phone screen with the team member was by the book, he was obviously reading from a script but he was polite and succinct. The last 15 minutes was some casual back and forth while I asked about what he did at the company and what living in the area was like.
I was invited to Seattle to go through further in-person interviews.
Phone screen, 5 1 hour interviews for loop
Each hour was dedicated to 2 LPs. System design was more collaborative than i anticipated which was a pleasant surprise. The phone screen mostly focused on my previous experiences
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Standard LP based scenarios, system design was actual system the team owns
Me postulé a través de una recomendación de un empleado. El proceso tomó 2 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Amazon (Tokio) en feb 2026
Entrevista
The interview process is straightforward but intense.
First interview was with another Software Dev Manager in the same team. After that the famous loop interview where I had to take 5 interviews in a row over two days ( using paid holidays at work ). Recruiter gave a lot of information about possible questions and helped with materials. However, I had to use same stories few times as the different interviewers asked same questions few times.
Everything is okay, I had a good time during the interviews and it was a good exercise. However, I simply do not understand why they have to call to reject? I am not a customer to be obsessed with. A straight cut rejection via email works better than taking time out of my busy schedule.
If they used this time to share some feedback, that would be useful. If they do not share any reason why I have to continue formal small talk just to get the rejection on my face?
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
A time you were driving toward a goal and realized more than halfway in that it may not be the best goal.
Had 1 round of System design interview. I thought the interview went ok, if not bad, it went decently well. Received a rejection response, while asking to apply 6 months later.
