Me postulé a través de otra fuente. El proceso tomó 4 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Amazon (Seattle, WA) en ago 2021
Entrevista
This was for a position in AWS.
Step 1: Informal conversation with the HM. Then an interview with the HM.
Step 2: Writing exercise. There were two questions. I could see the questions and then decide which one to pick. Limit of about 8.5k characters.
Step 3: This was followed by a tech screen. Asked me a design question and other management experience.
Step 4: 5 virtual loop interviews. 1) System Design 2) TPM Core 3) Roadmap Management 4) Operational Excellence (with two leaders, think they were bar raisers) 5) HM focused on people management and systems design.
Step 5: Got another call for a closing loop interview. This was my 9th interview including the informal conversation and excluding the writing exercise. Seemed to be focused on spinning up new teams. This guy wouldn't let me speak and kept interrupting.
Got a call later that they didn't want to move forward. Overall, a decent interview process and an ok experience other than the last interview. I also thought there were too many interviews in the loop compared to the industry standard. Anyway, I can only share so much because of the NDA signed. I'll add some management questions.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
1. Tell me about a significant disagreement you had with your manager or peers or direct reports
2. Tell me about a time you did not agree on the a project you were asked to implement
3. How did you convince the management for one of the challenging projects?
4. Tell me about a feature that you implemented where the customer requirement wasn't very clear
5. Tell me about an improvement you made after the system was up and running
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.
