Software Engineering HTML XML Engg. Tag Archives Amazon Amazon Interview Experience. Top 10 algorithms in Interview Questions. Personal experience on being hired as a software development engineer at Amazon. Detailed interview process, preparation tips, and more. Amazon interview questions. Technical interview at Amazon SDE and Microsoft Program ManagerExecutive Summary. Interviewing is time consuming, tiring, and a lot of work. But the reward for doing well is a full time job. Treat the whole process as a game and have a good time. And dont give up. It took me a long time to get an interview with Amazon and I have failed at the Microsoft interview process before so keep at it. Talk to friends. Aggressively pursue interview opportunities. Amazon Software Developer Interview Questions' title='Amazon Software Developer Interview Questions' />They rarely come to you. Make sure you can perform well with little to no sleep. How should I prepare for a Software Development Engineer interview at Amazon or find interview questions. Online shopping for Software Development from a great. The Software Engineers Guide. Cracking the Coding Interview 189 Programming Questions and. Software Development Engineer AmazonKnow what they want. Then show you have that. Enjoy the game. Contact HR if you havent heard from them see JC Oct 6. Be enthusiastic. No two interview experiences are alike. Prepare for anything and everything. Research shows that the interviewer makes up their mind in the first thirty seconds that they meet you. Dont have a cover letter. Be honest with yourself and your interviewers. How did I get two full time job offers from two great companies The answer is a lot of hard work and preparation. Disclaimer The opinions expressed here are my own and not those of any past, present, or future employers. Also, your interview experience mileage may vary. Getting the interviews. I started the full time job hunt before school started in September. The list of companies I was targetting was short Microsoft Amazon. Seeing as my girlfriend, Natalie, had a full time unaccepted offer from Amazon it was not hard for her to get me into the process there. Unfortunately it took a while to get the ball rolling but I did eventually get my first phone interview. Now keep in mind, that prior to Natalie receiving her offer and getting me into their system and I had worked hard to be interviewed by Amazon. I had submitted my resume online and had friends working there refer me, but it was because of Natalies inside connections and unaccepted offer that I got the interview. Of course, I am not in Waterloos co op system which makes it very hard to get co op or full time offers from companies who use the co op system. I never blogged about it, but I have hinted about it, but I interviewed with Microsoft in the Spring of 2. The reason I never blogged about it was because I never got past the phone screen. It was a very depressing experience. Regardless, I had several ins at Microsoft and I got them all to either put my resume into their resume system or to personally refer my resume to the Waterloo recruiter. I also submitted my resume in the bins at the co op building in response to the full time posting on the just graduated version of Access. But what I really think secured my first interview at Microsoft was that I attended their info session here on campus and waited till everyone had harassed the recruiter and I then moved in. To make my resume stand out I had circled all the relevant bits. Though she did make fun of me for circling them, but since it was the resume that all my interviewers later had in front of them, I consider the exercise to have been a successful one. I thought it might get the conversation rolling and it did. The conversation lasted about five minutes and felt quite gruelling. She even asked me to give her a 3. Microsoft should hire me. Moral of the story You need a personal in or some sort of human contact. Were convinced those resume or online resume things are blackholes. Preparation. In addition to aggressively pursuing job interviews I also aggressively prepared for the job interviews I hoped I was going to get. I prepared because I know other people prepare and I expected that employers likely expected candidates to be prepared. Baixar O Escritor Fantasma Legendado Film. To prepare I bought Programming Interviews Exposed PIE because a new hire at Amazon told me most of her questions were straight from the book. PIE is also the number six book on the Amazon Purchase Circle. Now, why would someone who has a job at Amazon buy a book on interviews unless they were using it as a guide for conducting interviews Note, the book contains errors. I found at least one, and some of their solutions are not as elegant as they could be. So, do not memorize the answers. I also bought a copy of How Would You Move Mount FujiI was convinced that the reason I failed at the Microsoft interview game in the spring of 2. I choked on an easy brain teaser. While you do not want to regurgitate answers youve memorized you do want to be familiar with the different classes of problems and the corresponding frameworks for solving them. If you do get a question you know, tell the interviewer. So, I read both books cover to cover and did all the proposed exercises. I also visited a lot of interviewing websites. One I spent a lot of time at was Techinterview. I worked through all 7. In addition to this preparation I wrote my own 2. C, C, Java, computer architecture and object oriented design. It was also helpful that I was taking both CS 4. Distributed Systems and CS 4. Networks. For the two months leading up to my interviews every spare moment during the day and on the weekends was spent preparing. I read a lot and I did a lot of problems. In fact during one power outage we got out the Mount Fuji book and we all worked through a couple problems by candle light. Initial interview screens. But you can only prepare so long before you have to show that you have what it takes. At Amazon I was interviewing for a Software Design Engineer position. While what I really wanted to do was be a Program Manager, Amazon does not recruit technical candidates into that position straight out of college. On my interview wiki you can read all about my first Amazon phone interview which I felt went really well. My second one did not go so well. I felt I really choked on some of the questions. Of course everyone tells you that the process of how you answer a question is more important than the answer but you cant help but feel dumb for not getting questions that as a Computer Science grad you should get. But after a sufficiently long delay I got the good news that they would be flying me down. At Microsoft I was interviewing for a Program Manager position. My initial screen was a thirty minute on campus interview. It went really well. He even had a copy of the same resume that I had circled up. This lead him to ask questions about stuff that wasnt circled which was fun. After finding out Amazon was ready to fly me down I got in contact with Microsoft and got the good news that they too wanted me to fly down to Seattle. I arranged to fly down Thursday, October 3. Microsoft and Amazon sharing the expense of getting me down there and taking care of my hotel. They put me up at the swanky, and very noir, Hotel W. In Seattle. Now on the flight down I made the mistake of sleeping. Once I got to Seattle I could not sleep. So I spent the night tossing, turning, and continually calling the front desk to get my wake up call changed. Moral of the story dont sleep on the flight down. I got up around 6am even though my interview was at 1. I had breakfast and spent the morning chilling on the sofa listening to my i. Pod trying to relax. I eventually got in a cab and made the trip up to the Pac Med building. I was early so I spent ten minutes outside enjoying the sun and listening to music. Interviewing at Amazon. My interview process at Amazon was six and a half hours. I was met by HR and she took me to the meeting room where Id spend my day. At Amazon the interviewers come to you. She also gave me a schedule of my interviewers. Here were my questions. Software Development Amazon. At Amazon, we hire the best minds in technology to innovate, build and break things for the benefit of our customers. That intense focus on customers is why we are one of the worlds most beloved brands its part of our company DNA. Our challenges are big impacting millions of customers, sellers and developers, and countless products and our path is not always easy. Doing the right thing rarely is. So were selective about who joins us on this journey. Theres a certain kind of person who takes on the challenges of software development at Amazon someone excited by the idea of owning people who like to build new platforms, features and services from scratch, developers who can manage the ambiguity and pace of a company whose ship cycles are measured in weeks, not years. Amazon is a place where builders build. Here is a sampling of Software Development positions we hire Software Development Engineer SDESoftware Development Engineer in Test SDETQuality Assurance Engineer QAEAndroid Engineer. Application Engineer. Solutions Architect.