Me postulé en línea. El proceso tomó 2 meses. Acudí a una entrevista en Amazon en abr 2012
Entrevista
Pretty standard. Please read 'cracking the coding interview' as a great book for information how to prep for interviews at any top tech company. Prepare also from Steve Yegge's blog post - how to get that job at google. It's pretty universal. Don't get scared though, you don't need to know all this.
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Questions about examples of behaviours from previous jobs / university projects. Tell me about at time when you had to be pragmatic / exceeded expectations / what was hard / what was complicated. Pretty standard, but it's hard to come up with examples on the spot.
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.
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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.
Me postulé en línea. Acudí a una entrevista en Amazon (Calgary, AB) en jun 2026
Entrevista
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.
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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