I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Sydney) in Apr 2020
Interview
1st round: Phone screen consisting of 30min leadership principles questions, and 30 minutes leetcode style questions. 2nd round: 3 interviews of the same format, and one interview with manager talking about a project I've worked on. This would be replaced with system design interview if this was for a higher level role. My interview was for SDEI (L4).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time you had to perform duties that were outside your normal role expectations? And lots more similar leadership principle style 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.
Interview questions [1]
Question 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.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Pergunta historicas baseada nos principios de lideranca da amazon.
