I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Dublin, Dublin) in Aug 2024
Interview
I have been sent an interview coding challenge. It was a Hackerrank challenge and I completed it fully, tests were passing and all checks were fully done. I submitted the challenge and then waited for a response after sending a submission email.
1 week passed and I sent another reminder email looking for a response back. And then 1 more week passed with another reminder email. I didn't want to be seen as unresponsive so I followed it up. However the person who was responsible for my interview, never ever returned back to any of my emails. I'm assuming what I received was just a simple automatic email including all the instructions for my challenge. I asked a question, sent multiple emails for the results. Nothing!
And then I found out 2 weeks later that I got rejected for some unknown reason. There's no explanation, nothing, no response email. I even doubt they found time to look if I completed the challenge at all. What a poor process.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Finding out some suspicious transactions in a list of transactions
Interviewed for silicon team. Have only been asked about the domain specific knowledge in 1st round and system design in 2nd round and C coding in 3rd round.
The interviews were 50 mins each.
First round with hr screening - 2 leetcode questions then hr manager screening then the loop which consists of 4 interviews each an hour long. The 4 interview questions they asked where three medium leetcode questions. And one system design interview question about how to shadow deploy a test software to millions of users.
Recruiter reaches out after applying through Amazon careers, no referral. Had an initial OA, then after a month had four rounds in two days - three coding one system design. Each round had 30 min behavioral and 30 min coding.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions were mainly hashmap, sliding window and interval related.