I applied in-person. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Eriwan, ) in Mar 2013
Interview
Hiring process started from Linked In, they contacted me first via email, we confirmed time for phone interview.
I was interviewed by 2 Indians whose English was so terrible that I couldn't even understand their email address.
questions was mostly easy main focus was on OOP.and data structures
There was 2 programing assignments and few theoretical questions.
Average time of each interview was about 1 hour.
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There was no difficult questions. The main problem was that I hardly hear them, voice quality was very poor and Indian English is something that worse than Chinese
Interviewed for silicon team. Have only been asked about the domain specific knowledge in 1st round and system design in 2nd round and C coding in 3rd round.
The interviews were 50 mins each.
The phone screen went longer than expected, focusing heavily on implementation details. The interviewer really grilled me on my approach to a Least Recently Used (LRU) cache, asking how I'd combine a hashmap with a doubly linked list. I felt well-prepared since I had gone through system design examples on PracHub, which made me comfortable discussing eviction policies. The later rounds included more technical questions and behavioral interviews, but in the end, I received an offer, though I ultimately decided to decline. Overall, I’d say the process was average, with solid questions.
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Design and implement a Least Recently Used (LRU) cache supporting get(key) and put(key, value) in O(1) average time. Walk through combining a hashmap with a doubly linked list, eviction policy when capacity is exceeded, and how you'd extend it to handle thread-safe concurrent access.
Recruiter reaches out after applying through Amazon careers, no referral. Had an initial OA, then after a month had four rounds in two days - three coding one system design. Each round had 30 min behavioral and 30 min coding.
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Questions were mainly hashmap, sliding window and interval related.