J'ai postulé via un recruteur. Le processus a pris 3 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Amazon en janv. 2013
Entretien
The process before the actual interview was great. Excellent communication and preparation tips, materials and concepts to review first were offered. The interview itself was exactly as expected, a total of 4 hours spent with 4 people for 1 hour each. A variety of topics discussed in varying detail. Architecture was the most prevalent theme in the discussions along with handling high volumes. Some coding questions, but not much. Focus was on architecture and whiteboard the offered designs.
The response was very quick, but no additional feedback was ever provided. All the great communication before hand was ruined after the fact. I don't mind a rejection but after spending 4 hours in discussions at least give me one specific detail. Calls were maid and emails sent and no response to any of them. Before the interview, nothing went more than 24 hours without a response or follow up.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Drawing the system architecture on the whiteboard of a very vague scenario. I know it is expected to see how you approach a problem and what questions you ask, but it seemed the scenarios lacked detail in some cases, not all.
Phone screen, 5 1 hour interviews for loop
Each hour was dedicated to 2 LPs. System design was more collaborative than i anticipated which was a pleasant surprise. The phone screen mostly focused on my previous experiences
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Standard LP based scenarios, system design was actual system the team owns
J'ai postulé via la recommandation d'un employé. Le processus a pris 2 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Amazon (Tokyo) en févr. 2026
Entretien
The interview process is straightforward but intense.
First interview was with another Software Dev Manager in the same team. After that the famous loop interview where I had to take 5 interviews in a row over two days ( using paid holidays at work ). Recruiter gave a lot of information about possible questions and helped with materials. However, I had to use same stories few times as the different interviewers asked same questions few times.
Everything is okay, I had a good time during the interviews and it was a good exercise. However, I simply do not understand why they have to call to reject? I am not a customer to be obsessed with. A straight cut rejection via email works better than taking time out of my busy schedule.
If they used this time to share some feedback, that would be useful. If they do not share any reason why I have to continue formal small talk just to get the rejection on my face?
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
A time you were driving toward a goal and realized more than halfway in that it may not be the best goal.
Had 1 round of System design interview. I thought the interview went ok, if not bad, it went decently well. Received a rejection response, while asking to apply 6 months later.
