Me postulé en línea. Acudí a una entrevista en Amazon en ene 2013
Entrevista
I can't say much, because I'm still at the second step of the process. I just received am email telling me that I need to schedule the second interview. So here is my experience with the first phone interview.
The interviewer started by giving me some information about his work and his devision, then I asked me to talk about my background and some of the projects that I was involved in. Surprisingly, the man was very friendly and he gave me all the time I needed to express myself and I was speaking to him I could hear him typing something on the keyboard (most probably comments). Then he said I'm going to ask you some conceptual questions. He showered me, if I may say, with questions about polymorphisms, passing values by variables vs actual values, sorting algorithms, binary search trees and their efficiency in terms of time and space.
In general I answered them mostly right, but he grilled me a little bit in the explanation of the binary tree searching algorithms to the point I thought I just blew the interview off. After that he asked to write a code using an online editor where he can see what I write listen to me walk him through the code. He asked to write a code to find the intersection between to lists. I made my assumptions that these lists are integers saved in arrays and he said OK. I wrote the code under pressure, but as I was moving through I kept creating methods and consider optimum solution. I guess that's what got me to the second interview (my programming skills not my knowledge about binary search trees complexity.
I'm waiting for the second interview and I will definitely share my experience here after it is done.
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.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 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.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Pergunta historicas baseada nos principios de lideranca da amazon.