Solicité el puesto a través de la escuela superior o la universidad. El proceso duró 3 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Amazon (Seattle, WA) en abr 2014
Entrevista
Group Coding Interview
I have been called for special round where people from different universities are grouped into a team size of 3. We were given three problems to work on, all of them are independent of each other and will be evaluated only on the performance of the individual. Although, they will assess our team collaboration skills.
There is very less information across the web for this Group Interview and it was very difficult to predict how it going to be and prepare for it. I signed NDA so I cannot reveal the questions but I will give the best information which is not discussed elsewhere.
Interview starts at 9:30 AM and you will have some info session with the dev's. You will be given the question at around 10 Am and will have a chance to pick up a task from 3 tasks assigned for the group. The panel will reach to your table at around 10:30-10:45 and will have a 15 min Q&A session on your approach. You will have the chance to code for until 2:00 PM, after which you need to report to the panel about your status for about 15 minutes. Later, 30 min interview very relevant to the coding exercise and a final 15 min session.
You need to wrap up things by around 4:30-5 PM. Ultimately, you will be left with 4 - 4:30 hour for the coding exercise.
The tasks were not very difficult, you need to think how you can code the solution in 4 hours. It is very important to come up with some working solution rather than a fancy one. I almost came up with a very elegant OO code but failed to finish and make it run. I complicated myself, so are others. I could hardly see anyone turning up a solution.
Advice:
Prepare well with the data structures, advanced ones like interval trees etc.
Have good knowledge about algorithms like Bellman ford, Knapsack and many more.etc.
No need to stress on Design Patterns.
Collaborate well with the team.
Practice some coding challenges which can be solved in 3-4 hours (Most Important).
It is all about your thinking process and the speed,accuracy with which you can code.
Enjoy Seattle !
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Some real world problems on which Amazon works like Shipping, Advertising, Replenishment .etc
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.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 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.
Envié una solicitud electrónica. Acudí a una entrevista en Amazon (Calgary, AB) en jun 2026
Entrevista
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.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 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