I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2018
Interview
- 1 Hour phone screen. 30 mins technical coding interview w/ 30 mins of deep domain questioning.
On-site:
1. GM - hiring manager of group. Personality, leadership, organizational behaviour questions.
2. 5 senior / Principal engineers, technical grilling. 1 system design question - 1 hour.
2 coding interviews.
3. All interviewers focus on problem solving, ask for detailed examples from past job to
highlight certain qualities they are looking for : Ownership, delivery, customer satisfaction,
team player, orgn behaviour, conflict resolution and so on.
4. 1 hour recruiter interview over lunch, analyzing background, and similar personality and
team fit questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Coding. System design. Can I work thru an open problem and come up with criteria against
which the complex s/w system can be built.
I applied online. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Boston, MA) in Jul 2016
Interview
Just a phone screen. Everything went very well until I questioned the interviewer about the culture issues brought up in the press and about Bezos's style. Right then the interview ended abruptly. Like stepping on a land-mine.
My advice would be to not mention the article or Bezos at all.
One other piece of advice when answering the python coding question is to think about using generators rather than loops - I think the interviewer was looking for that as well.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A pretty simple python coding problem. Not a lot of guidance. Coding live via an app.
The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2008
Interview
Phone screen by recruiter who read from a script. A few days later got a call from the hiring manager. She was not sure exactly what she wanted, and talked about a number of different things. Invited in for onsite interviews. The first two guys were late and bored. I did not like it so i excused myself and left before lunch.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Usual questions about data structures. Nothing you haven't seen before.