I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon (New York, NY) in Jun 2017
Interview
I was contacted by Amazon recruiter over the email for their hiring event in New York City. I applied at Amazon before and recruiter came across to my profile in their database. After sharing my updated resume, I was informed that my profile has been selected to move forward. Next I received an email invitation to participate in an ‘online technical challenge’. It was 90 minutes coding challenge and I had to solve two coding problems. I was able to solve the first problem successfully but run short on time to complete the second one.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Both the coding challenge were Functional Programming problems .
1. There were set of rules given in the problem statement. You have to process array of input, do some calculations accordingly to return the sum.
2. There were few conditions given in the problem statement. You have to process two array string input and return the result after comparing the values.
Interview process was fairly technical , with several coding examples to understand thought process....there were around 6 rounds of interview and one interview was over lunch. Interview team was very friendly and I find process very accepting .....
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in May 2017
Interview
I was contacted by a recruiter through a Job search website for a full time position.
The response after each interview was super quick (relative to interviews in other companies)
Once they reject you, seems like the recruiter don't respond to your mail anymore. Pretty rude and unexpected.
1st phone call was with the recruiter. A 20 minutes conversation. Later he scheduled a day for phone interview.
1st round was a 45 minute technical phone interview. It went well. The interviewer was supportive and knowledgeable. I enjoyed the interview.
In couple of days I was told that they want to go ahead with onsite interview. I was thrilled and set a date for 3 weeks later.
I hated the onsite interview process. I liked that they paid for my travel(from California) and the stay at downtown. The onsite interview was of 4 hours - 5 rounds and NO BREAK for me in between. Why no break? Because the interview started 15 - 20 minutes late and that's why every next interview got overlapped and the interviewee had to suffer. It was utterly exhausting for me and frustrating after 2.5 rounds. I was interviewing after 9 long years and that's why I was uncomfortable, I guess, to ask for breaks in between. But if you are reading this and face similar situation please ask for breaks after every interview.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Phone rounds:
1. Odd/Even number of occurrence of integers in an array
2. Given an organization structure as a file, print out the employee names and its corresponding reportees in a structured format.
Onsite:
Round 1: Mostly behavioral
- Any technical challenge I have faced in past? How did I resolve it?
Any big impact to any of your recent projects?
How would you convince your manager(reasons/factors) to changing an implementation(a big modification) in a product which is in production currently?
Round 2: Technical
- Implement merge sort.
- Graph problem
Round 3: Technical
- A method to count number of occurrence of words in a file. The objective was to write a clean code rather than an optimized code.
Round 4: Behavioral and Architecture
- Past project experience
- Design a messaging app
Round 5: Design/Coding
- Ideas about implementing a search suggester
- How will you implement it?