J'ai postulé via un recruteur. Le processus a pris 2 mois. J'ai passé un entretien chez Amazon (Seattle, WA) en févr. 2012
Entretien
When the recruiter approached me, I have asked for intermediate position, instead of telling me I may not be qualified, they sign me up for SDE I anyway. I did not understand their corporate structure so I had no idea. I should have suspected it when I find the interview questions so easy I can answer them in my sleep. In retrospect, my job is so operational in nature, they shouldn't have asked me computer science questions. Just test me on my ability to follow a huge amount of trivial instruction, I would have rightly failed. They didn't tell me that I would have to pay back my relocation expense in the contract, except that I have to... Now I am trapped in a job I suck at
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.
J'ai postulé en ligne. J'ai passé un entretien chez Amazon (Calgary, AB) en juin 2026
Entretien
Online Assessment is the first step in the process. I didn’t have an HR phone screening and went straight to the OA after applying. It was sent to me about a week after I submitted my application.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
The first question is LeetCode style algorithms question, and the second question gives a full stack repo (choice of Java, NodeJS, or Django) and asks to solve a backend issue which is causing a bug in the frontend. Unit tests must pass to pass the second question. You can run both backend/frontend indivdually or together
J'ai postulé en ligne. J'ai passé un entretien chez Amazon (Santa Clara, CA) en juin 2026
Entretien
Recruiter reached out and set up an onsite loop after the initial steps. Four back to back rounds in one day. Two coding heavy rounds run by senior engineers, one round with the hiring manager, and one behavioral round with a bar raiser. Mix of leadership principles and data structures throughout. Heard back within a week.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Standard BFS grid problem. Given a grid, find the time for all cells to reach a target state where the spread happens one layer at a time.
How did you answer: Clarified the constraints, walked through the approach, then coded a clean BFS from all starting points at once. Tracked the number of layers until everything was covered.