I applied through a recruiter. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2018
Interview
Contacted by a recruiter, initial phone screen, then a technical phone interview, with coding quesitons. Then, I was invited to go interview at the Amazon HQ in Seattle. On-site interview has 5 sessions with 5 different people/groups. Three of them were technical, and one was more behavioral/cultural, and then a lunch with a 'random' employee (They were the same role I was interviewing for). I definitely left with a sense that I crushed the interview, especially from the technical sense, and built a really good rapport with the interviewers.
More 'canned' questions than I had expected. Apparently, they really emphasize this STAR (Situation, Task, Action, Result) method. Technical questions weren't very difficult, some basic web development stuff, nothing regarding higher level topics like unit testing or CI.
Overall it was an enjoyable interview, and I really enjoyed seeing the HQ.
I was told that they'd get back to me within a week, which they didn't. So after several attempts to follow up, (and after 3 weeks) had to eventually dig back through the email chain and find a calend.ly link to set up a call with the original recruiter who told me that they were moving forward with another candidate, etc.
The follow up process could have been a little more professional, considering it was a pretty straight forward decline, and they should know that people interviewing are probably trying to weigh other offers at the same time. A quick email would have sufficed, instead of ignoring and dragging out the process.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
What was an example of a challenge that you were able to overcome.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Aug 2017
Interview
I got contacted through LinkedIn by a recruiter, he told me they were hosting an event in my city and asked me if I wanted to be considered for it. After having a quick HR call with him and sending my CV, he sent me a link with a couple HackerRank style coding questions; I would consider them between Easy and Medium difficulty. After one or two weeks of submitting them I got another email saying that I passed the test and they would like to move forwards with my candidacy. I had a second call with the recruiter regarding logistics, what to expect, etc. later that day he sent me some generic study material.
The onsite interview consisted of 4 50-60min rounds.
1. They tested your JS/HTML/CSS skills
2. They tested your knowledge in HTTP and some general questions of how the internet works.
3. Coding interview
4. Coding interview
Later that same day I got a call from the recruiter saying they would like to move forwards with a job offer, one week later they sent the offer details.
Interview questions [5]
Question 1
Write a JS plugin to manipulate tables (you can use jQuery).
Always print the third unique number of a sequence. The list of unique numbers can hold up to 4 elements, if it gets more, it haves to discard the oldest number.
Examples:
Input: 1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 6
Answer: null, null null 3 3 3 4 4
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Amazon in May 2017
Interview
Phone screen was scheduled after my friend referred me. It was a one hour long technical interview, with questions ranging from HTML, CSS, JS and 3 coding questions (using only vanilla js)
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