Solicité el puesto a través de un captador. El proceso duró 3 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Amazon (Seattle, WA) en jul 2024
Entrevista
I got a reach out from a recruiter for a position in special project. I was interviewed by a manager, a dev, and a bar raiser. Before the interview I specifically asked if there will be OOD questions, and I was told there will be none explicitly by the recruiter. I ended up with two OOD questions and I was completely blindsided.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
design a music playlist system to shuffle and loop songs.
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.