Me postulé a través de otra fuente. Acudí a una entrevista en Amazon (Seattle, WA) en jul 2017
Entrevista
2 phone screenings by hiring team comprising technical and behavioral questions followed by 5 back to back on-site interview.
The phone screenings were more technical in nature (mostly system design and scalability related questions).
The onsite interview started with a shock: The person who phone screened me and recommended me to come over for an onsite interview did not even remember my name.
I mentioned I was happy to see him in person. He could not recollect it and looked perplexed.
He probably came up with a prepared set of questions (he had a notebook) which I believe he had already asked in phone screening.
Since they could not be asked anymore, his technical questions were completely unstructured and he had little to no interest in hearing my answers.
All the other interviewers were good to great. The bar raiser (likely) and hiring manager were the best of the lot. They were very professional and their questions were very focused on Amazon leadership principles and technical deep-dive on my previous projects. They actually listened with intent and had good followup questions.
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Can't get into the details since I signed an NDA with Amazon
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
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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?
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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.
