Weird Amazon SDE1 Interviews (2017)

Status: New grad, BS CS Top 10 CS school
Position: SDE1 at Amazon
Location: Palo Alto, CA
Date: November, 2017

Interviews:
Technical Online Assessment (1 hr):

  • IQ test-like questions
  • 5-10 code debugging questions
  • Had to read some paragraphs and answer multiple choice questions about them. Similar to easy SAT questions

Behavior Screen:

  • Series of situational questions (1-1.5 hr) (ex: deadline for your project is in two days but to properly implement it will take a week, what do you do? etc). Study the 14 Amazon core principles and you'll be fine.

Technical Online Assessment (1 hour):

  • Write a function to tell if two rectangles are overlapping given two opposite corners for each rectangle
  • some other easy question

Onsite (1 round):

  • Tour of Seattle Office, Lunch and then a weird technical interview where the whole group (~30 interviewers) sat at a desk and were asked about the solutions to the same questions in the online technical screen (???).

Details:
A couple days later everyone in our onsite group got a call from a recruiter telling us the quota for 2017 was full so we were rejected, but around May 2018 I got a call from a recruiter saying I was hired, she asked for a preference of location and date.

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