I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Toronto, ON) in Feb 2019
Interview
The interview process was quite strenuous. First a phone interview, second a 2-hour take-home test and lastly a full day of onsite interviews. The recruiter sent me a lot of things to study beforehand. She was very nice and talked on the phone a lot with me, preparing me for the tests and my full day of interviews.
In the all-day session I had a total of 5 interviews and I was there from 10 am to almost 5 pm. Amazon bought lunch, which was nice.
There were a lot of behaviour questions asking about negative experiences in the past. In my 3 years of experience I honestly haven't encountered that many issues at work and it was difficult to come up with relevant answers.
One of my interviewers wanted to test my JavaScript, CSS and HTML experience, things that I had minimal experience with as well. When I informed her that I've only done Typescript/React/Angular and not as much Vanilla Javascript she seemed frustrated.
Overall the interview day left me feeling pretty badly. I didn't get an offer, but after learning about the environment there, I knew I didn't want to work there. It really surprised me how little Amazon seems to care about its employees. It felt like you're just a number there and if you work too much and drive yourself in the ground it didn't seem like anyone would notice.
Interview questions [9]
Question 1
How do you determine if the words in an array are isomorphic? (a similar question on leet code exists)
I applied through other source. I interviewed at Amazon in Jul 2018
Interview
First applied through their website after a month of nothing I networked through friends sent resume to Stephanie Fillion and got a response back 10 days later from Arkady Blyakher set up a call with Walker. Phone questions were all about database joins and algorithms nothing about actual front end development for about an hour. After passing that I got homework: hit restful api get all prescriptions (several hundreds) and look up medications if generic/alternative medication exist return all updated prescriptions with generic medications must be efficient. Submitted my code 10 days later got a rejection reply.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What kind database joints do you know? What type of algorithms do you know?
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jul 2018
Interview
I got invitation to apply via LinkedIn. They scheduled phone interview after 2 weeks. Recruiters were very professional during the whole process. Next day after the interview I got email from the recruiter that I was not a fit for this role.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Question were related to my past job experience and algorithms.