Envié una solicitud electrónica. El proceso duró 4 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Amazon (Seattle, WA) en abr 2014
Entrevista
Interview process took close to month. Initially contacted for phone screen, then took 3 weeks for on-site interview. Communications were delayed, took more than a week to get response back.
Phone screen: mix of technical and people oriented questions
On-site interview:
6 rounds of interview. Mostly technical oriented questions. Some people related questions. Technical questions centered around architecture and scalability.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
1. Past work exp, why a particular solution was chosen?
2. Implement hash table
3. Scaling distributed cache
Phone screen, 5 1 hour interviews for loop
Each hour was dedicated to 2 LPs. System design was more collaborative than i anticipated which was a pleasant surprise. The phone screen mostly focused on my previous experiences
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Standard LP based scenarios, system design was actual system the team owns
Solicité el puesto a través de la recomendación de un empleado. El proceso duró 2 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Amazon (Tokio) en feb 2026
Entrevista
The interview process is straightforward but intense.
First interview was with another Software Dev Manager in the same team. After that the famous loop interview where I had to take 5 interviews in a row over two days ( using paid holidays at work ). Recruiter gave a lot of information about possible questions and helped with materials. However, I had to use same stories few times as the different interviewers asked same questions few times.
Everything is okay, I had a good time during the interviews and it was a good exercise. However, I simply do not understand why they have to call to reject? I am not a customer to be obsessed with. A straight cut rejection via email works better than taking time out of my busy schedule.
If they used this time to share some feedback, that would be useful. If they do not share any reason why I have to continue formal small talk just to get the rejection on my face?
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
A time you were driving toward a goal and realized more than halfway in that it may not be the best goal.
Had 1 round of System design interview. I thought the interview went ok, if not bad, it went decently well. Received a rejection response, while asking to apply 6 months later.
