Solicité el puesto a través de la recomendación de un empleado. El proceso duró 3 meses. Acudí a una entrevista en Amazon (Seattle, WA) en nov 2016
Entrevista
One phone technical interview followed by onsite interviews. The phone interview which was completely technical was the most fun experience. The interviewer sounded reasonable and experienced in interviewing.
The onsite interviewers overall were friendly but most of the interviews felt redundant with the same subjective questions being asked repeatedly. The team appeared relatively new and lack interviewing skills in general. They seemed surprised hearing past extraordinary project achievements to the extent that they looked and sounded not-trusting them. Most of the explanation and details of the past achievements did not appear to delve well with them also because of the unfamiliarity with technologies used.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Onsite Interviews are not as much about your technical skills as it is about your past accomplishments and leadership skills as per their principals.
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.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 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.
Preguntas de entrevista [3]
Pregunta 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.