I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon in Dec 2011
Interview
It was a standard Amazon interview process. I could not get past the phone round itself. The position that I interviewed for was in the Cloud team. The questions basically ranged from how a normal process works to multi-processing and cloud computing.
The interview call was a stroke of luck, I had a resume that was just floating around in one of the job seeking websites and I got a call from the recruiter out of the blue.
The initial part of the interview was the friendly chit chat as to what they ( the team ) do, followed by questions about my resume and my work experience so far.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Simplest way to make the same change to thousands of html files stored in a Unix environment. Should have been able to answer it but dint.
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.
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Question 1
Questions were mainly hashmap, sliding window and interval related.
The phone screen went longer than expected, focusing heavily on implementation details. The interviewer really grilled me on my approach to a Least Recently Used (LRU) cache, asking how I'd combine a hashmap with a doubly linked list. I felt well-prepared since I had gone through system design examples on PracHub, which made me comfortable discussing eviction policies. The later rounds included more technical questions and behavioral interviews, but in the end, I received an offer, though I ultimately decided to decline. Overall, I’d say the process was average, with solid questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design and implement a Least Recently Used (LRU) cache supporting get(key) and put(key, value) in O(1) average time. Walk through combining a hashmap with a doubly linked list, eviction policy when capacity is exceeded, and how you'd extend it to handle thread-safe concurrent access.
Interview by recuriter, Phone interview over Chime with one easy Leet code problem and 2 behavioral questions. Although the interviewer was very casual at the start of the conversation, it quickly changed into behavioral questions at the start.
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Question 1
Encoding optimization algorithm and talk about a project you did recently.