J'ai postulé via un recruteur. Le processus a pris 4 jours. J'ai passé un entretien chez Amazon (Blacksburg, VA) en oct. 2012
Entretien
I turned in my resume at a career fair on campus. When I was talking with the recruiter at the career fair, I was asked to do some coding. Then I was contacted by a recruiter a week later. I had 4 interviews in total and they were all on campus.
My first interview was mostly theory questions about stacks, heaps, processes, and threads. I was also asked to do a simple coding problem too. That evening I received an email saying I passed the first round and they'd like me to come back 2 days later for 3 more interviews.
The interview questions were quite challenging. I don't think I did very well at the second interview, which was writing a code that takes a float and output a string representing a price in the format $xx,xxx.xx. I managed to produce a working piece of code but with a lot of help from the interviewer so I think if you're stuck, you should ask for hints and they don't mind it.
I was more successful at the third interview in which I was asked solve two problems, again the programming language was my choice.
The last round was different from the previous three. I was given a problem and was asked to describe an algorithm to solve it. No coding required. In fact when I started to write down some code I was reminded that I only need to describe the algorithm.
Optimization was a big deal because I was asked to analyze running time of my code and to optimize them, especially at the last round.
After the last round, I was asked if I need to know their decision by any specific time. I said I'd like to know their decision before then end of the year. The interviewer smiled and said it wouldn't take that long. Typically it'd take 2-3 weeks. That's why I was so surprised and excited when I got an email from them later that day announcing I was offered the position. So basically it took less than 4 days for the entire process.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Given a singly linked list of characters. Determine of they form a palindrome.
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.
Um teste de código online, se aprovado, vai para o loop. O loop é 4 entrevistas seguidas, duas em inglês e duas em português. 3 entrevistas técnicas de código, todas as 4 têm pergunta de liderança.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Pergunta historicas baseada nos principios de lideranca da amazon.