J'ai postulé via un recruteur. J'ai passé un entretien chez Amazon (Seattle, WA) en mars 2013
Entretien
Their recruitment agent found me on LinkedIn and sent me an email inviting me to a phone interview with them. The first interview wasn't so bad. They asked about OOP, sorting, and tree traversal questions. There was some coding done on collabedit.
I heard back from them a week later asking for a second phone interview. The second interview was similar to the first, in which they have a question to see if you are familiar with different data structures, run times and regex.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Finding phone numbers of a given format inside large number of different HTML files
Surprisingly easy — I expected tougher questions, but the coding round felt more like a warm-up. The main challenge was a DSA problem about counting islands in a 2D grid, which led to a discussion on DFS versus BFS and handling large grids. Funny enough, I had revisited that exact type of question while prepping on PracHub, which made me feel more confident. The interview wrapped up with a behavioral round, and I accepted an offer, but ultimately decided to decline it for another opportunity. Overall, it was a smooth experience.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Number of Islands — given a 2D grid of '1's (land) and '0's (water), count the number of connected islands. Walk through DFS vs BFS, and discuss how to avoid revisiting cells (in-place mutation vs visited set) and what changes if the grid is huge and must stream from disk.
It started with an OA, and then after a few weeks, I got invited to four rounds of interviews: technical and behavioral at 3 of the 4, and behavioral only at one.
Um teste de código online, se aprovado, vai para o loop. O loop é 4 entrevistas seguidas, duas em inglês e duas em português. 3 entrevistas técnicas de código, todas as 4 têm pergunta de liderança.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Pergunta historicas baseada nos principios de lideranca da amazon.
