I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Feb 2014
Interview
Contacted me via linkedin.
I had to do 1 coding exercise + 1 design exercise using an online tool.
Weeks later I received a phone call to attend an onsite interview.
I applied online. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Luxembourg) in Jan 2014
Interview
The whole process was very well organized by the recruiter. All the people were very friendly and made me feel at ease, both during phone interviews and during on site interviews. Unfortunately, after about a month and a half, I received an email saying that I would not be in.
It was a good experience anyway.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1° phone interview:
- Talking about background and previous experiences
- Design Patterns
- Big O notation concepts and examples
- Agile metodologies
2° phone interview:
- Find the element that appears an odd number of times in an array where all elements except one appear an even number of times.
- Design a Data Structure for a phonebook
- Find if there are two elements in an int array that sum up to a given x
- Live coding of the solution to second problem through collabedit.com
- Talk about given solutions complexity
On site interview:
1° (Senior Product Manager)
- Three "Tell me about a time you..." questions
2° (SDE)
- Given a 0-5 random int generator create a 0-7 random int generator.
- Get k highest price in a list of n <item,price> pairs (and talk about complexity)
3° (Senior SW Dev. Manager)
- Two "Tell me about a time you..." questions
- In-depth discussion about a schema I drew on a whiteboard
4° (SDE)
- OO Design of an elevator system
- Write code to handle the system requests queue
5° (SDE)
- Solving a Puzzle that involves graphs search
- Write BFS code on a whiteboard