J'ai postulé via un recruteur. Le processus a pris 2 mois. J'ai passé un entretien chez Amazon (Seattle, WA) en avr. 2011
Entretien
The recruiter contacted me in mid-February, and scheduled phone interviews in mid-March. Phone screenings went well, and they flew me to Seattle for on-site interview in April. I met 3 engineers, 2 managers and 1 recruiter in one day, and even though I feel it works well, I get rejected in one week.
Questions d'entretien [2]
Question 1
Design an algorithm to tell how many shapes in the given bitmap image. Shape is defined as all the adjacency true bits.
For example, if the input looks like this, the answer is 4.
00001
11000
01101
10001
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