Candidatei-me online. O processo levou 4 semanas. Fui entrevistado pela Amazon (Seattle, WA) em dez. de 2012
Entrevista
I applied online and got contacted roughly 2 weeks later.
The first interview was a technical interview in which I was asked one question to implement a function that required recursion. I was a bit rusty on recursion so I struggled with it, but the interviewer gave me tips and was helpful and I eventually got the solution. I thought due to my struggles that I would simply be brushed off from that point. However, I was surprised to see that I passed and moved on to the next stage.
The second interview was two weeks later, in which the interviewer didn't call and it had to be rescheduled. At the rescheduled interviewed, the interviewer had a thick accent and explained the function that she wanted me to code. Throughout the interview her tone of voice generally sounded depressed or bored and she didn't really offer any positive acknowledgements like the first interviewer. I finished the function but got it wrong since I mistaken what she wanted probably due to her accent, but quickly fixed it to be what it was supposed to be within 30 seconds.
I found out a week later that they're going to pursue other candidates.
Overall, the first interviewer was clean, concise, and helpful in what he wanted me to do, even though I struggled I passed the first phase. The second interviewer seemed as though she wasn't as organized (missed first scheduled interview, really did not explain the question clearly - the first interviewer copy pasted an exact description of the function + examples, whereas she manually typed in some examples while trying to explain it), and clearly was not excited or enthused about her job (or maybe the interviewing portion of it).
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.
Perguntas de entrevista [1]
Pergunta 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.
Fiz uma entrevista na empresa Amazon (São Paulo, SP).
Entrevista
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.
Perguntas de entrevista [1]
Pergunta 1
Pergunta historicas baseada nos principios de lideranca da amazon.