I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Amazon in Jan 2012
Interview
After contacting by a recruiter, he set up two 45 minute phone interviews for me.
They are just like two technical interviews.
(1) Both interviewers are from India and they all got strong accent, especially the second one. I have a hard time in understanding their words.
(2) One of the interviewer refused to use an online editor together even I suggest it. He actually ask me to write a "complete" java codes on a paper first and then read "every letter" to him line by line. Seriously? Some how I believe he wanted to waste our time, why? Anyway, I only have to answer two problems.
(3) Following (2), I believe the second question he threw to me was both an algorithm but also a brain-teaser one, which I don't like. I ask him for hint but he refuse to disclose the optimal answer (I will post question below).
(4) The other interviewer, he asked all tech coding problems, which are mostly short and intuitive. But after answering five questions correctly and quickly. We still have about 15 minutes left and then we chatted until the end. I think this is good sign for me because it means that I'm doing well. But honestly I prefer someone push me to the limit and give me a compensation then based on my skill level. I feel that I was treated like a under but actually I'm almost complete my PhD. Other company send manager / PhD to beat me (everyone can be beaten eventually), but somehow I think the interviews are too easy so that I don't think they will gauge my skill level clearly. Thus, I an worry that they would NOT give me a PhD-level pay. (Probably I apply for the wrong position)
Anyway the overall feeling is okay. The question are all coding & problem solving types. No O/S questions or DB questions.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
You got some baby bottle samples. You would like to know the max height you can drop it without breaking the bottle. Let set the unit as 1 foot. And the highest height you can reach is at N feet. So how would you find the (max) safe height?
(following the previous one) You got only ONE baby bottle sample. You would like to know the max height you can drop it without breaking the bottle. Let set the unit as 1 foot. And the highest height you can reach is at N feet. So how would you find the (max) safe height?
(following the previous one) You got only TWO baby bottle sample. You would like to know the max height you can drop it without breaking the bottle. Let set the unit as 1 foot. And the highest height you can reach is at N feet. So how would you find the (max) safe height? (This is the one I think is kind of brain-teaser one.)
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Vancouver, BC)
Interview
One online assessment and one virtual interview included a coding round and leadership principle questions; overall, the process was fairly straightforward and not overly challenging for me throughout the experience.
2 rounds:
1st round: 3 behaviorals: Tell me about yourself, tell me about a time you used Gen AI, tell me about a time you faced a problem in one of your experiences
Leetcode similar to LRU Cache but a variant
2nd round: 3 more behaviorals; tell me about yourself, a specific experience in my internship, a time you disagreed with manager/peer on a project
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA)
Interview
Pretty difficult OA didn't need to get full score. One round technical interview with SDE. Interview was pretty easy, most people I knew at school and friends ended up passing the interview. Took about 1 month to hear back after interview
