I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Kraków) in Oct 2016
Interview
Hiring event. 4 sessions - 50 minutes each.
The interview process was prepared very professionally, recruiters where very helpful and informative. But although I liked the interview experience, I see some deficiencies.
- I didn't like that at each interview session i was asked similar behavioral questions, if consider it as unnecessary duplication. Therefore I had too little time for technical task.
- Poor, only yes\no, feedback. I have no idea why i didn't get the offer.
- Coding on whiteboard is hard ;)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- purely coding questions. Important to think all corner cases and write working implementation on whiteboard.
- behavioral questions about situations at work (difficult bug, mistake, conflict, etc...)
- architectural questions (design webportal capable of "amazon" scale operations)
Interviewed for silicon team. Have only been asked about the domain specific knowledge in 1st round and system design in 2nd round and C coding in 3rd round.
The interviews were 50 mins each.
First round with hr screening - 2 leetcode questions then hr manager screening then the loop which consists of 4 interviews each an hour long. The 4 interview questions they asked where three medium leetcode questions. And one system design interview question about how to shadow deploy a test software to millions of users.
Recruiter reaches out after applying through Amazon careers, no referral. Had an initial OA, then after a month had four rounds in two days - three coding one system design. Each round had 30 min behavioral and 30 min coding.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions were mainly hashmap, sliding window and interval related.