Company: Amazon
Title/Level: SDE Intern
Education: Advanced student (3.5 years completed), Software Engineering
Prior Experience: 6 months in a local startup doing web development
Date of the Offer: December 2019
Location: Madrid
Salary: EUR1700
Relocation expenses covered: plane ticket to Spain, plane ticket back from Spain, and EUR800/month for housing expenses
Internship duration: 3 months
Interviews: 1 online questionnaire, 1 online interview
Online questionnaire: you are sent a link that takes you to an online test. Some multiple choice questions and some code debugging questions. Should not pose a problem for anybody reading this post :)
Online interview:
- 5 minutes to present yourself and them to present themselves.
- 40 minutes to solve a coding excercise. I had to solve Number of Islands. Did so communicating every thought that crossed my mind. There was not a single second of silence during the whole interview. I felt this was my strongest point - communication. I arrived at an optimal solution (doing BFS around each 1 with the aid of a queue), but not before discussing some slower/less optimal solutions, like a brute-force approach.
- 15 minutes to answer Leadership Principles-related questions. I had already thought a real-life example of myself acting according to each of the principles. I recommend doing the same, as you might go blank when asked during the interview!