I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Apr 2011
Interview
I applied online, and 1 month later they contacted me to schedule a phone interview. The first interview consisted of two 45 minute interviews from different interviewers. Each was very similar and asked different coding questions. First one was easier and was more basic. Second one was how to detect the largest palindrome in a word.
I got contacted later for a second round phone interview, consisting of 1 45 minute interview. There was a question about Linked lists and another on detecting the first non-repeating word in a given word.
Hackerrank round first and then two LC questions as the final round (BFS/DFS medium). Also had a behaviour component, testing the leadership principles and how my experiences aligned with them.
Expect one behavioral LP question followed by a leetcode medium or hard for two rounds. Be prepared to answer in depth on the behavioral questions and review LeetCode’s list of questions from Amazon.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about what AI platforms you use to help you work more efficiently
HR interview, then I had 1 45 minute coding round with 10 minutes behavioral and 35 minutes coding. Behavioral round was typical star format questions probing at leadership principles. Ex. Tell me about a time you took initiative and it didn’t work out.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an m x n grid of characters board and a string word, return true if word exists in the grid.
