I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Nov 2013
Interview
I met the recruiter at a college job fair. They flew me out for day-long interview. You worked in groups of 3, and the programming task had 3 parts to it, so each person picked a part. The parts were conceptually related, so teamwork was a benefit (bouncing ideas off each other), but in the end your code is your own; you could use any language you want (independent of team members). Halfway through the day there was a 30 minute session where you were expected to walk through your algorithm design choices and code with 2 of the proctors.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
"What would be a disadvantage to using recursion in this case?"
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.
Interview questions [1]
Question 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.
Um teste de código online, se aprovado, vai para o loop. O loop é 4 entrevistas seguidas, duas em inglês e duas em português. 3 entrevistas técnicas de código, todas as 4 têm pergunta de liderança.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Pergunta historicas baseada nos principios de lideranca da amazon.