J'ai postulé via un recruteur. Le processus a pris 4 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Amazon (Kraków) en oct. 2016
Entretien
Hiring event. 4 sessions - 50 minutes each.
The interview process was prepared very professionally, recruiters where very helpful and informative. But although I liked the interview experience, I see some deficiencies.
- I didn't like that at each interview session i was asked similar behavioral questions, if consider it as unnecessary duplication. Therefore I had too little time for technical task.
- Poor, only yes\no, feedback. I have no idea why i didn't get the offer.
- Coding on whiteboard is hard ;)
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
- purely coding questions. Important to think all corner cases and write working implementation on whiteboard.
- behavioral questions about situations at work (difficult bug, mistake, conflict, etc...)
- architectural questions (design webportal capable of "amazon" scale operations)
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.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 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.
Questions d'entretien [3]
Question 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.