I applied online. The process took 6 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Dresden) in Apr 2024
Interview
Quite possibly the worst interview process I’ve ever seen. I applied in March and got an OA in April. I completed both questions on the OA and all test cases. They said I’d hear back “soon”. Fast forward to September, I’ve completely forgotten I even interviewed there and I get invited to a final round(panel). They give me the days it would be held and I gave them my availability. They then said it had to be rescheduled because of “business issues”. I’ve tried to reach out to the recruiter 3+ times but they are out of office. Today my application got moved to “no longer considered”. Idk if I did something or if they just gave up on the position.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Leetcode easy-medium idk cuz it was like 5 months ago at this point.
Interviewed for silicon team. Have only been asked about the domain specific knowledge in 1st round and system design in 2nd round and C coding in 3rd round.
The interviews were 50 mins each.
The phone screen went longer than expected, focusing heavily on implementation details. The interviewer really grilled me on my approach to a Least Recently Used (LRU) cache, asking how I'd combine a hashmap with a doubly linked list. I felt well-prepared since I had gone through system design examples on PracHub, which made me comfortable discussing eviction policies. The later rounds included more technical questions and behavioral interviews, but in the end, I received an offer, though I ultimately decided to decline. Overall, I’d say the process was average, with solid questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design and implement a Least Recently Used (LRU) cache supporting get(key) and put(key, value) in O(1) average time. Walk through combining a hashmap with a doubly linked list, eviction policy when capacity is exceeded, and how you'd extend it to handle thread-safe concurrent access.
First round with hr screening - 2 leetcode questions then hr manager screening then the loop which consists of 4 interviews each an hour long. The 4 interview questions they asked where three medium leetcode questions. And one system design interview question about how to shadow deploy a test software to millions of users.