Me postulé a través de un reclutador. El proceso tomó 2 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Amazon (Varsovia, Mazovia) en feb 2017
Entrevista
I was contacted by recruiter and got to on-line programming test service (after contact check yor SPAM folder - the invitation doesn't com from amazon domain and the link domain doesn't lead to domain the mail comes from). After online programming skill test I was contacted by a recruiter again and informed about following steps and how to answer questions and solve tasks. Two days of interview were given for choice. Reimbusement travel form was sent and the hotel was reserved and paid by Amazon. The interview took place in another hotel nearby. I was sat in one hotel room, got to sign NDA and was visited by four project or product managers with whom I talked 1:1. After the two there was a 30min break. They told about themselves and what kind of projects I could work on in their part of a company. They examined problem solving approach, system design skills and soft skills called "leadership". All was drawn on a paper, only amazonians were carrying laptops and were making notes.
The next week a recruiter called to summarize the evaluation and inform that there was no success and when the next attempt can have place.
I was told that if I was proposed a job after the interview I will talk with those people again to choose where I choose to work. Maybe next time.
Despite defeat, it was valuable experience.
Preguntas de entrevista [4]
Pregunta 1
Imagine that there is no {some popular Internet brand}. Propose a system that implements this functionality.
Recruiter screen, followed by an online coding assessment and then a technical phone interview. The final round was a virtual onsite loop with multiple interviews covering data structures, system design, debugging, and Amazon Leadership Principles. The technical questions were practical but time-constrained, and the behavioural questions required specific examples using the STAR format.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Design a scalable URL shortening service and explain how you would handle high read traffic, collisions, database schema, expiration, and basic monitoring.
That moment when the interviewer asked about finding indices in an array for a target sum was wild — I had just tackled something identical while prepping on PracHub. The interview included a technical round with another question about designing an in-memory LRU cache and a behavioral question about meeting tight deadlines. After a smooth discussion, I was told I'd received an offer, which I happily accepted. Overall, the process felt pretty straightforward and not overly challenging.
Preguntas de entrevista [3]
Pregunta 1
Given an array of integers return the indices of two numbers summing to a target
Interviewed for silicon team. Have only been asked about the domain specific knowledge in 1st round and system design in 2nd round and C coding in 3rd round.
The interviews were 50 mins each.