I interviewed at Amazon Web Services (Vancouver, BC)
Interview
Study the first 20 amazon tagged questions on leetcode. most of my questions came from there. I had some slightly more difficult more broad software design questions that were like "design and implement a filesystem search class". The last interview was mainly about past experiences and relating them to leadership principles, be prepared to make that mapping on the fly.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Study the first 20 amazon tagged questions on leetcode
It was about projects and dsa in 2 rounds. Finally, a hr asking about why, where and other types of questions. The interview was virtual and asked to do questions on screen
The technical interview focused entirely on Data Structures and Algorithms (DSA) problem-solving. I approached each question using the STAR (Situation, Task, Action, Result) method to explain my thought process clearly, justify my solution, describe my implementation, and communicate the outcome in a structured and logical manner.
I interviewed at Amazon Web Services (Toronto, ON)
Interview
OA: 2 questions: 1 leetcode the other debugging on a repo with some tests
4 round onsite:
1 LLD
1 Technical
1 Full Behavior
1 Technical + Genai
LP questions are asked across all rounds
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
LP: describe a time to make a sacrifice in your design and why
Software Development Engineer (SDE) applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon Web Services with 3.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 61% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Development Engineer (SDE) roles take an average of 58 days to get hired, when considering 79 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon Web Services overall takes an average of 36 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon Web Services as a Software Development Engineer (SDE) according to 79 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 28%
One on one interview: 20%
Phone interview: 18%
Personality test: 11%
Group panel interview: 9%
Background check: 9%
Other: 2%
Presentation: 1%
IQ intelligence test: 1%
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