Behavioral questions are based on Amazon Leadership principles. I had a ton of them. I am sorry but I can't remember them all.
~4 years of experience
Some curveballs to watch for:
- You may be expected to implement your own edge case behaviors.
- Know your stories. You WILL be asked followup questions.
Interview 1:
SDE II over webconfrence. Several behavioral questions, then: Design a voting system, question changed to implement majority vote. It was hard to understand what he meant by majority vote. (highest count vs >50%)
Interview 2:
Manager - 100% behavioral questions
Interview 3:
Two interviewers (one had a cool blog) - Behavioral Questions, then design a playlist system for playing songs.
Interview 4:
Two interviewers - Behavioral Questions, then sorting problem. You are given friend of friends and recommendations. Return the recommendations sorted by the # of recommendations.
Followup Interview through Amazon Chime:
I remember these questions:
Tell me about a time you were vocal and had a differing opinion to the rest of the group. Followed up with the "differing opinion to the manager issue".
Tell me about a time where an insight in one area allowed you to solve multiple problems.
Tell me about a time you needed to peel multiple layers from a problem to arrive at a solution.
Problem - Longest duplicate subsequence of a string (https://leetcode.com/problems/longest-duplicate-substring/) - realized the problem was similar to something else I have seen before and came up with a good solution, interviewer was impressed and said noone had ever done that.