Candidatei-me por meio de recrutador(a). O processo levou mais de 1 semana. Fui entrevistado pela Amazon (Bengaluru) em mar. de 2013
Entrevista
I was asked to attend an online coding test in InterviewStreet that had 4 questions to be solved in 2hrs. I solved 2 of them and was short-listed for f2f interview next week.
I attended interview 1st Round. The interviewer was very knowledgeable and he asked me algorithm questions. I was unable to answer properly and thus eliminated after the 1st Round.
Great learning experience and would prepare well to get into it in future.
Perguntas de entrevista [1]
Pergunta 1
How would you efficiently store a million strings in a data structure so that you would give suggestions if a part of word is typed?
For eg: let there be 5 words cat, ball, basket,banana,bench.
If I type b it should suggest me ball,basket,banana,bench
If I type ba it should suggest me ball,basket,banana
If I type ban it should suggest me banana
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You should show how you store the data, how you then retrieve them to give user a proper suggestion and do this efficiently.
It's exactly same as the dictionary app we use.
The other 2 questions were also challenging.
One was some sorting question that I don't remember but it was an easy one and the other was to how would I structure a TreeMap in java assuming that it doesn't exist in the Collections library.
Loop — 4 rounds, all on the same day
Round 1 — Coding (DSA)
Interviewer was a senior SDE, very friendly.
Warm-up + behavioral: "Tell me about a time you took ownership of something outside your responsibilities."
Main question: Given a list of meeting intervals, find the minimum number of conference rooms required. I used a heap. He then asked a follow-up: what if meetings could be reassigned to minimize total idle time? We discussed approaches but didn't fully code it.
He cared a lot about how I talked through edge cases out loud.
Round 2 — Coding + Problem Solving
LP question: "Describe a situation where you disagreed with a teammate."
Coding: LRU Cache implementation from scratch. I used a hashmap + doubly linked list. He pushed on thread-safety and what happens at capacity 0.
Round 3 — Behavioral (Bar Raiser)
This was the toughest round — no coding, all Leadership Principles, very deep STAR-format probing.
Questions I got:
"Tell me about a time you failed and what you learned."
"A time you had to deliver something with a tight deadline and limited information."
The bar raiser kept drilling: "What was your specific contribution?" "What would you do differently?" "What data did you use?" Have 6–8 strong stories ready with metrics.
Round 4 — Low-Level Design
Design: Design a parking lot system (classes, vehicle types, spot allocation, pricing). Then he asked me to code the findSpot() and releaseSpot() methods.
Perguntas de entrevista [1]
Pergunta 1
Most coding questions were LeetCode Medium. Common themes: graphs, heaps, sliding window, hashmaps, and LRU/design., system design,
Great interview process with three rounds, including a technical assessment and a technical interview. The interviewers were professional and supportive throughout the process. The questions mainly focused on DSA, problem-solving, and core technical concepts. The discussions were engaging and provided a good opportunity to demonstrate technical skills. Overall, the process was well-structured, smooth, transparent, and a very positive experience.
Candidatei-me por meio de uma faculdade ou universidade. Fiz uma entrevista na empresa Amazon (Dublin, Dublin).
Entrevista
Online techincal assessment. Had to screen share and complete basic coding tasks similar to Leet Code. Could choose a language of your choice. Overall a very fair system and judged based on merit.
Perguntas de entrevista [1]
Pergunta 1
Technical assessment so a basic leet code style question about reversing the orders of long numerical strings.