Le processus a pris 1 jour. J'ai passé un entretien chez Amazon (Seattle, WA) en déc. 2011
Entretien
I was offered to interview on campus without a phone screen, flight and hotel paid for. The process consisted of several 45-min 1:1 technical interviews, and the questions were not incredibly difficult (mainly dealing with data structures and algorithms). However, it felt like some of the interviewers were expecting very specific answers and couldn't understand my thought process (when it didn't match theirs exactly). Half of the interviewers seemed tired and not that happy to be there, one walked into the room with an attitude and stayed that way throughout the whole time. Overall, it wasn't a very good experience and did not show off the company in a good light, (as far as software engineering department goes at least).
Questions d'entretien [2]
Question 1
Given sequences of page visits for thousands of users, find the most common sub-sequence across all of them. And now can you do it faster than what you just did. What about even faster.
Give an overall object-oriented design of the game chess. (This was one of the easier questions, but the interviewer was incredibly stubborn in pushing for a very specific answer).
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
