I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Feb 2014
Interview
The interviewer will ask you the basic data structure such as hash table. Therefore, you should master hash table. The first coding question is get out of the maze. You could simply use DFS to solve it. The second coding question is compress string which is the same question in Cracking the coding interview.
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One of the interviewer ask me tell me about your favorite project. He required that this project should be simply for yourself rather than research or courses. It is a really hard question, because most of my project are course projects.
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.
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Given an m x n grid of characters board and a string word, return true if word exists in the grid.
La entrevista para el puesto de Software Engineer Intern en Amazon fue únicamente en una prueba técnica online con ejercicios de programación y algoritmos, tipo LeetCode. El nivel era alto para unas prácticas, y la plataforma funcionó correctamente durante la evaluación.
Online assessment 1 hour 2 system design questions difficult as well
1 Final round interview 25 min behavioral and 35-40 min technical questions 1-2 leet-code medium difficulty questions data structure analysis questions
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Amazon Leadership principle for behavioral section
