I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Los Angeles, CA) in Feb 2014
Interview
There were two back to back 45 minute interviews. First one had to do with searching (game where you switch one letter at a time until you make an entirely new word), second was more relaxed, asked a bit about what courses I was taking, and asked about counting the number of nodes at each level of a tree. The interview went fine, but it would've been easier if I had prepped more.
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Question 1
First interviewer asked what problem I wanted to solve (general, not even coding based, but it took me by surprise)
Hackerrank round first and then two LC questions as the final round (BFS/DFS medium). Also had a behaviour component, testing the leadership principles and how my experiences aligned with them.
Expect one behavioral LP question followed by a leetcode medium or hard for two rounds. Be prepared to answer in depth on the behavioral questions and review LeetCode’s list of questions from Amazon.
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Question 1
Tell me about what AI platforms you use to help you work more efficiently
HR interview, then I had 1 45 minute coding round with 10 minutes behavioral and 35 minutes coding. Behavioral round was typical star format questions probing at leadership principles. Ex. Tell me about a time you took initiative and it didn’t work out.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an m x n grid of characters board and a string word, return true if word exists in the grid.
