J'ai postulé via un recruteur. Le processus a pris 1 semaine. J'ai passé un entretien chez Amazon (Seattle, WA) en juill. 2010
Entretien
I was contacted by an Amazon.com recruiter without me applying for any position. I assume they found me at Dice.com. I set up a phone interview with the recruiter and scheduled it for later in the week.
The interviewer opened with information about what they were looking for, a generalist programmer basically, then asked if I had any questions for him, I did but he couldn't answer them very well since he is not on the team that the job is for. Then he went into questions, first he asked me about garbage collection, I think he was looking for how it works at a low level, but wanted a very general answer.
Next he asked about how browsers and the internet work, again very general answer.
The programming problem dealt with looking for substrings without using high level language methods, I'll post that question.
Then he gave me another chance for questions.
About half a week later I was contacted for a second phone interview (they said there could be up to 3 phone interviews) which is scheduled for later this week.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Without using any high level language methods (such as indexOf()) write a function that takes two strings (A and B) and checks to see if B is in A, if it is return the index that B starts at.
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.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 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.
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