I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Apr 2012
Interview
I had one phone in interview. They called me and the interviewer had an accent so it was somewhat difficult to understand everything he was saying. He first asked me to tell him about some of the projects I did and which one I found most challenging. He then started with technical questions. Here are the ones that I can remember (I did the coding in Java):
1. Write code to reverse a linked list.
Ex. null -> a -> b ->c ->d ->e. This should become null <-a <-b <-c <-d <-e
2. Write code to print out each node of a tree in level order and print a new line whenever a new level is to be printed.
3. Describe encapsulation and polymorphism.
4. What is the difference between a vector and arraylist?
I was unprepared and did not have the mindset to answer the most basic object oriented questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write code to print out each node of a tree in level order and print a new line whenever a new level is to be printed.
I interviewed at Amazon (Peking, Peking) in Apr 2022
Interview
One hour interview. First, the interviewer asked me to introduce myself and some basic questions about my projects. Very common behavioral question. Then a coding question: return longest non-palindrome substring
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
-Describe yourself
-Ask about projects: most challenging part
-Coding question: return longest non-palindrome substring
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2022
Interview
1. Applied online
2. Get invited for OA, which include 90 mins coding questions and behavior surveys. Both of the coding questions are recommended to solve in DP solutions, otherwise maybe time exceeded
3. Passed OA and get invited for Phone Screening for 1hr
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What did you do when you are not happy with something in your work. (give example in detail)
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Dresden) in Jul 2020
Interview
A recruiter contacted me regarding the position via email and scheduled the discussion. After the discussion with a recruiter, Following interviews have scheduled:
First telephonic(Chime): 1 Coding problem and Behavior-based question as per Amazon's leadership principles
After this round, they have shortlisted me for the next 5 rounds which are usually on-site interviews but due to COVID pandemic that interview happened via Chime.
All 4 rounds out of 5 were having 1 design question and 3-4 Behavior-based questions and 1 round was completely based on Behavior-based questions.
So, in total there were around 3 software design questions and few debugging based questions and rest are Behavior-based.
I have prepared nearly 30 stories based on Amazon leadership principles as per my past experience and according to me, performed quite well.
But unfortunately, I got rejected and as usual, did not get any feedback which is as per the Amazon policy.
It was my 3rd attempt at Amazon and in the last 2 attempts prepared very well and gave my best. But still could not cross the line. Though preparation never goes waste as I have cracked the interview for other 4-5 companies and got the offer.
But I do not what to improve to cross the Amazon's Interview benchmark. A person needs to talk a lot and by end of the day it feels so exhaustive.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Behavior-based question and System Design and Debugging
