J'ai postulé via un établissement d'enseignement supérieur ou universitaire. Le processus a pris 1 semaine. J'ai passé un entretien chez Amazon en oct. 2012
Entretien
They were recruiting from my University. I submitted my resume online on Wednesday. Thursday they emailed me to set up an interview for Tuesday morning. Tuesday night they emailed me to setup 3 more interviews on Thursday. Friday I was notified I had been selected to receive a full time offer.
The recruiter was a little flaky after that, missing phone appointments. Eventually he followed through and set me up with a weekend trip to Seattle to meet some potential teams.
The interviews were mostly technical. Each one was 45 minutes. Each one asked two programming questions and a couple personality type small talk questions. "Why did you choose to study computer science," "what's your favorite/least favorite thing about school." I don't recall any behavior questions, you know the kind, "tell me about a time you failed miserably at something and everyone laughed at you."
Only one of the interviewers tried to make me write compileable code. I tried my best, but reminded how valuable a good IDE is. Know your algorithms and their big-o. Know how to find test cases. Know recursion, dynamic programming, all of the fun stuff.
Going through the interviews I made sure to constantly tell the interviewer what I my thoughts were and why. I gave a reason for everything and when suitable reasons against anything else.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Given a stream of characters and a set of characters, find the shortest sequence in the stream containing all characters in the set.
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.
J'ai postulé en ligne. J'ai passé un entretien chez Amazon (Calgary, AB) en juin 2026
Entretien
Online Assessment is the first step in the process. I didn’t have an HR phone screening and went straight to the OA after applying. It was sent to me about a week after I submitted my application.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
The first question is LeetCode style algorithms question, and the second question gives a full stack repo (choice of Java, NodeJS, or Django) and asks to solve a backend issue which is causing a bug in the frontend. Unit tests must pass to pass the second question. You can run both backend/frontend indivdually or together