I got an assessment from Amazon and soon after that I got a mail to schedule final loop interview. The only problem was I didn't knew if it was SDE1 interview or SDE2 interview since I had four rounds.I mailed my recruiters multiple times but no one replied, then I asked a friend who works at amazon to check internally and I found out it's an SDE2 role. I got cold feet since I was preparing for SDE1 based on my level of exp. So during the prep call(part of preparation before interview), I talked with the Host(Speaker) that I feel SDE1 L4 is more suited for me and also how my recruiters are not replying to any of my mails, then she asked if I graduated within last 24 months and I said yes, then she said she will contact my recruiter and will mail her. So, following this, my reccruiter out of the blue just canceled my interview(without even asking me) and told me she will try to schedule a SDE1 interview. And after that she ghosted me. I contacted her several times but she didnt even replied. I know I should have gone with the SDE2 interview, but I thought they might have power to schedule me an New grad SDE1 interview since I graduated in last 12 months. My recruiter had no right canceling my interview without even asking me or scheduling another interview.
Worst recruiters and no decency to reply to mail.
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I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
The process started with a brief 30-minute phone screening with a recruiter, focusing on my background and resume.
After that, I was invite to a technical video interview with a senior engineer. This round lasted about 60 minutes, starting with a brief introduction, followed by a live coding challenge on a shared editor, and ended with a few questions about system design basics and my past projects.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Implement a function to find the first non-repeating character in a string and discuss its time and space complexity.
total 5 rounds - First OA assessment, quick telephone interview with recruiter, followed by 4 back to back technical and behavioral rounds. In technical round question were around topological graph sorting, cycle detection in linked list, and LRU cache. In behavioral round, the question were based on their 16 principles.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you manage the disagreement at your workplace.
I got a take home exam on HackerRank that I did not do great in. I did not perfectly solve every problem. Then it was another problem with "AI assistance" except the AI seemed programmed to be as useless as possible, it's genuinely better to just not use it. Somehow I got the next interview anyways, who also asked me some leetcode style questions and asked my to explain my experience and then next day they rejected me.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is the most complex problem I have encountered?
Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 48% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 24 days to get hired, when considering 3,656 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 28 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a Software Engineer according to 3,656 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 30%
One on one interview: 18%
Skills test: 17%
Presentation: 10%
Personality test: 7%
Group panel interview: 6%
IQ intelligence test: 5%
Background check: 4%
Other: 2%
Drug test: 2%
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