I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Toronto, ON) in Jul 2012
Interview
Applied online and heard from a recruiter within 3 hours. They had an upcoming interviewing drive. The recruiter discussed with me the position in the Toronto office on the phone to asses my suitability. Afterwards I was invited for an in-person technical interview for the following week.
The interview included four 1-on-1 sessions. Three of which were technical, one of which was more traditional HR (with the group's hiring manager).
The first technical interview was the standard stuff about binary search trees and hashing.
The second one (bar raiser) had a question about path finding in a grid-maze with obstacles.
Third interview had some questions regarding string manipulation in C and finding pairs that sum to k in an unsorted integer array.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Finding a path in a maze which is represented by a grid of characters.
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.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Pergunta historicas baseada nos principios de lideranca da amazon.
The whole process stretched over nearly a month, longer than I anticipated. After an initial phone screen, I faced a technical round that included a Min Stack implementation question. We discussed design considerations and thread safety, which threw me for a bit. Fortunately, I remembered a specific mock interview I practiced on PracHub that mirrored this scenario closely, making me feel more at ease. Ultimately, I received an offer, but I chose to decline due to the company culture not feeling like the right fit.
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