Me postulé a través de un reclutador. El proceso tomó 6 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Amazon (Dublín, Dublín) en feb 2014
Entrevista
I got in contact with a recruiter through a friend, and they were going to come to my country to do some interviews. After a first contact email they sent me a url to make an offline telematic interview, and after it I went to the onsite interviews, 5 in total.
A couple of weeks after the onsite interviews I got the offer.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
First I was surprised about was that they recommended me to read their Leadership Principles and think about them deeply, as they would ask me them, and in fact they did, so behavoiral questions will be asked.
Apart from that, they asked me some Object Oriented Programming questions, and some algorithmic questions.
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.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 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.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Pergunta historicas baseada nos principios de lideranca da amazon.