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Amazon Job Interview

31 Aug 2016

You got job interview with Amazon…

This is my once in a life time to interview with a big global IT company. Honestly, I’m not interested in Job Hunting but this one is really trembling me.

First, I got approached by recruiter from Linked In. She said about the new opportunity for big IT company based in Seattle.

I know it at the first thought that it will be Amazon. That because, I’ve read through a lot of blogs about AWS.

Then, I prepared resume for recruiter to apply it for me. After 2 weeks passed, I got an email that I got an opportunity to have job interview at Amazon Japan in next week.

For interview at big IT company like Google, Facebook and Amazon, I knew that I do need a practice in programming, data structure and some algorithm. After I hearded about this opportunity,I do some practice in a site like
GeekForFeek and CareerCup. And I also read Cracking the Coding Interviews.

And this is what I found on interview:

  1. You need to writing on Whiteboard to describe about your ideas, opinion and answer.
  2. All you have for programming is notepad :)
  3. Here is some answers that I can remember.
    • Design parking system
    • Write the binary tree search function.
    • Write how the stack work (push, pop)
    • Write down the insert function in Heap

I did some practice in Java, then I tried to answer it all in Java also. The reason behind is I can finished some tasks by using terminal only. (Use vim as editor and compile it with javac)

And that’s it… I got rejected from Amazon.