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Senior Frontend Engineer Interview Experience - Cambridge, United Kingdom

September 1, 2022
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Process

I applied in early August through their job board and received confirmation on proceeding with my application after a month. I had several calls with HR regarding preparation for the interviews, which involved many questions about their leadership principles.

I had the initial screening round where the interviewer asked mostly situational questions and very basic CSS and JavaScript questions.

After that, there were a series of five rounds: some focused on leadership principles, some on coding, and one on system design. I had to prepare two or more examples for each of their 10-12 leadership principles.

Overall, the technical questions asked were easy; the main focus was on those situational leadership questions.

In the end, as often happens, they said my technical skills were strong, but for behavioral aspects, they wanted to downgrade the level of frontend engineer they were hiring for from Level 5 to Level 2. They also stated there was no opening at that level, so they would need to check further for other teams.

On a personal note, with my level of relevant industry experience and a proven work record, this feels insulting. It's what I've heard they do with everyone, and it's not fair.

Questions

  • Design news feed
  • getElementsByStyle()
  • Function to output "days ago," "months ago," or "year ago" from a date as input

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Amazon's interview process for their Senior Frontend Engineer roles in Cambridge, the United Kingdom is incredibly easy as the vast majority of engineers get an offer after going through it.

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