Amazon

Graduate Software Developer Interview Experience - Madrid, Spain

January 1, 2025

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

After the online assessment, there are three interviews scheduled for the same day. Each interview lasts one hour, for a total of three hours.

For the interviews, you are asked to prepare some stories using the STAR methodology, which is well-known at Amazon. You should also practice coding exercises through LeetCode or a similar platform.

Questions

The technical questions were:

A Boggle game where you are given a matrix and must determine how many words can be formed.
Creating the structure of a tree.
Implementing a system for a pizza place to calculate the price of a pizza based on size, toppings, and dough.

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Amazon's interview process for their Graduate Software Developer roles in Madrid, Spain is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

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Candidates reported having mixed feelings for Amazon's Graduate Software Developer interview process in Madrid, Spain.

Amazon Work Experiences

Awesome Culture, Slow Promotions

Software Development Engineer (SDE) • Current Employee

January 30, 2023

Pros: Awesome culture, good compensation, and some of the best engineers in the field.

Cons: The promotion process can be too slow.

Awesome Culture, Slow Promotions

Software Development Engineer (SDE) • Current Employee

January 30, 2023

Pros: Awesome culture, good compensation, and some of the best engineers in the field.

Cons: The promotion process can be too slow.

Not so good conditions to be in Madrid

Software Development Engineer • Former Employee

Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

August 13, 2022

Pros: Stock options Possibility of shifting to other teams

Cons: Crowded team of ~15 people, split into two fields of knowledge, but with full responsibilities when on-call. Team without any onboarding process. Arrived and got pushed to the pool.

Not so good conditions to be in Madrid

Software Development Engineer • Former Employee

Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

August 13, 2022

Pros: Stock options Possibility of shifting to other teams

Cons: Crowded team of ~15 people, split into two fields of knowledge, but with full responsibilities when on-call. Team without any onboarding process. Arrived and got pushed to the pool.

Great Benefits, Slow Start

Quality Specialist • Current Employee

Pros: Secundaire voorwaarden, werk en leven passen goed.

Cons: Lange proces om uiteindelijk te beginnen.

Great Benefits, Slow Start

Quality Specialist • Current Employee

Pros: Secundaire voorwaarden, werk en leven passen goed.

Cons: Lange proces om uiteindelijk te beginnen.

Awesome Culture, Slow Promotions

Software Development Engineer (SDE) • Current Employee

January 30, 2023

Pros: Awesome culture, good compensation, and some of the best engineers in the field.

Cons: The promotion process can be too slow.

5.0
Awesome Culture, Slow Promotions
Software Development Engineer (SDE) • Current Employee
Madrid, Spain
January 30, 2023
Pros: Awesome culture, good compensation, and some of the best engineers in the field.
Cons: The promotion process can be too slow.

Not so good conditions to be in Madrid

Software Development Engineer • Former Employee

Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

August 13, 2022

Pros: Stock options Possibility of shifting to other teams

Cons: Crowded team of ~15 people, split into two fields of knowledge, but with full responsibilities when on-call. Team without any onboarding process. Arrived and got pushed to the pool.

4.0
Not so good conditions to be in Madrid
Software Development Engineer • Former Employee
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
August 13, 2022
Pros: Stock options Possibility of shifting to other teams
Cons: Crowded team of ~15 people, split into two fields of knowledge, but with full responsibilities when on-call. Team without any onboarding process. Arrived and got pushed to the pool.

Great Benefits, Slow Start

Quality Specialist • Current Employee

Pros: Secundaire voorwaarden, werk en leven passen goed.

Cons: Lange proces om uiteindelijk te beginnen.

5.0
Great Benefits, Slow Start
Quality Specialist • Current Employee
Madrid, Spain
August 4, 2022
Pros: Secundaire voorwaarden, werk en leven passen goed.
Cons: Lange proces om uiteindelijk te beginnen.

Amazon Interview Questions

Two Sum

Find two numbers in a given array that add up to a specific target value, and return their indices. Essentially, you need to efficiently locate the pair that satisfies the sum requirement.

Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock

You're given daily stock prices. Find the maximum profit you can make by buying and selling the stock once. You must buy before you sell.

ArraysDynamic Programming

Reorganize String

Rearrange the characters in a given string such that no two adjacent characters are the same. If such an arrangement is possible, return it; otherwise, return an empty string.

StringsGreedy AlgorithmsArrays

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