I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (London, England) in Apr 2013
Interview
I applied on internet.
A few days after, they sent me a program to write.
The program was not very difficult. But what they wanted was a program which could be very fast with a huge amounts of data.
The program:
I had a file representing a binary tree. In the file, it was coded like that:
B,C
NULL,B
C,A
...
Null meant that B was the main uppest node.
Then, C was the son of B and A the son of C.
The program took a depth and the file in input and should give the node which were at this depth in alphabetical order.
After that, I received a notification to go in London.
I was in front of two ingeneers of Amazon and it was technical questions.
The question was not difficult but I misunderstood the question bacause of my english and so I lost a lot of time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The question was to fin the number of time an array was schifted.
For example:
[1 2 3 4 5 ] is 0 because it is in order
[7 5 6] is 1 because it should be [5 6 7]
[7 8 9 2] is 1 too.
HR interview, then I had 1 45 minute coding round with 10 minutes behavioral and 35 minutes coding. Behavioral round was typical star format questions probing at leadership principles. Ex. Tell me about a time you took initiative and it didn’t work out.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an m x n grid of characters board and a string word, return true if word exists in the grid.
La entrevista para el puesto de Software Engineer Intern en Amazon fue únicamente en una prueba técnica online con ejercicios de programación y algoritmos, tipo LeetCode. El nivel era alto para unas prácticas, y la plataforma funcionó correctamente durante la evaluación.
Online assessment 1 hour 2 system design questions difficult as well
1 Final round interview 25 min behavioral and 35-40 min technical questions 1-2 leet-code medium difficulty questions data structure analysis questions
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Amazon Leadership principle for behavioral section