Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. La procedura ha richiesto una settimana. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Amazon (Seattle, WA) nel mese di gen 2013
Colloquio
Did a half day onsite. They never collected my NDA and didn't seem interested in it, so I guess I can feel freer to talk about it.
Met with a couple of managers who clearly hated me on sight. I felt I did a good job answering the questions, however, they pretended they didn't understand. They never made eye contact, kept their arms folded, focused on other things while I worked at the whiteboard. Didn't pay attention at all. I stood there for a while, while the guy read his email, then he snapped out of it and began fault finding and displaying a general attitude of contempt. (note: I am an unattractive older American female, so it sure felt prejudicial, but who knows, maybe they are that way with everyone)
Be careful, they will ask you about what you did at former companies. Always always say that you can't discuss it, no matter how cool or interesting it was. They are testing you to see if you will give away company secrets.
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
How does Facebook work? How would you design it
How does automatic suggestion work? How would you design it to scale, performance, distributed cache, etc.
Describe something you worked on at a former company. Explain in detail. (trick question! Always answer that it was proprietary and cannot be discussed)
It started with an OA, and then after a few weeks, I got invited to four rounds of interviews: technical and behavioral at 3 of the 4, and behavioral only at one.
Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Amazon (Calgary, AB) nel mese di giu 2026
Colloquio
Online Assessment is the first step in the process. I didn’t have an HR phone screening and went straight to the OA after applying. It was sent to me about a week after I submitted my application.
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
The first question is LeetCode style algorithms question, and the second question gives a full stack repo (choice of Java, NodeJS, or Django) and asks to solve a backend issue which is causing a bug in the frontend. Unit tests must pass to pass the second question. You can run both backend/frontend indivdually or together