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Interview experiences · Alten Spain
Alten Spain Software Engineer Interview Experience: recruiter, business manager, and technical stages
My process was fairly straightforward: first an introductory recruiter call, then an interview with the business manager, and finally a technical interview. The early stages were meant to get to know me, my experience and skills, and my path and expectations. After the HR and manager conversations, the technical stage tested my skills. The format felt classic: fit and role framing first, then tec…
Interview experiences · ALTEN Technology USA
ALTEN Technology USA Software Engineer Interview Experience: A missed technical meeting after an HR briefing
My process began with an HR call that did not really feel like an interview. There were no questions to verify my skills, only a briefing about what would come next. For the second technical meeting, I joined on time and waited about an hour, but nobody showed up. I flagged it immediately and never received an apology or explanation for the lost time or the preparation I had done. After two follo…
Interview experiences · ALTEN Technology USA
ALTEN Technology USA Software Engineer Interview Experience: backend assignment, React interview and client-stage confusion
ALTEN Technology USA reached out on LinkedIn even though I hadn't applied. The recruiter described a relatively one-time process and said they'd keep my profile for future opportunities even if I didn't join. It ended up taking much longer and feeling far less organized than that first explanation suggested. I had a brief HR screen, then a backend technical-lead interview. It went well, and I rec…
Interview experiences · ALTEN Technology USA
ALTEN Technology USA Software Engineer Interview Experience: business-manager postponements
I started with a recruiter conversation about my background and what would come next. The process then moved toward a business-manager meeting about my experience, skills, learning, and fit for projects. In the easier versions of the process, I didn't see a deep technical evaluation. It felt more like checking alignment with the profile and overall motivation. The usual sequence was an HR call, a…
Interview experiences · ALTEN Technology USA
ALTEN Technology USA Software Engineer interview experience: mission fit and Java
My first experience was an HR phone introduction about my background and motivations. I did not continue because the available assignments were all connected to the army, which did not fit what I wanted. In a separate, more complete process, I started with HR discussing my experience and qualities, then took a Coding Game test in Java focused on logic, algorithms, and problem solving. Another pra…
Interview experiences · ALTEN Technology USA
ALTEN Technology USA Software Engineer interview experience: three structured conversations
The process had three clear parts. After an introductory recruiter conversation, I had another discussion focused on getting to know me as a person. Then came a technical interview that tested my skills more directly. The difficulty was about average. It was not an intense grilling, but it was more than small talk. The order stood out to me: personal fit first, then ability. I had expected lighte…
Interview experiences · Altimetrik
Altimetrik Full Stack Engineer interview experience: one-hour MS Teams coding
I had one technical interview on MS Teams that lasted an hour. The interviewer was friendly, and I shared my screen and wrote code in the IDE I used for the assigned problems. The session went reasonably well. What stayed with me was the lack of closure afterward: there was no feedback after that first round, so I was left wondering how I had done. The interview itself felt okay, but the missing…
Interview experiences · Amaris Consulting
Amaris Consulting Software Engineer interview with .NET and Angular
After a recruiter call, I went through an organized and transparent process. The early stage covered my background, then I met the team manager for a technical conversation about .NET, Angular, problem solving, and how I communicate and collaborate on past projects. The tone stayed friendly and professional, and I got timely feedback after each stage. I had manager and technical interviews, then…
Interview experiences · Amazon
Amazon Account Executive interview: behavioral stories and Leadership Principles
After a recruiter screen, I had interviews about my previous experience and behavioral examples, with situational and problem-solving questions mixed in. Communication was clear, and the panel was approachable, which made it less intimidating than I expected. The conversations were about how I worked, handled situations, and made decisions rather than intense technical drills. Amazon Leadership P…
Interview experiences · Amazon
Amazon Account Executive Interview Experience: Four-week Leadership Principles loop
I applied online for an SMB-focused AWS account executive role. The assessment went well, followed by two interviews and then an interview loop. The whole process took about four weeks from start to finish and felt structured compared with other processes I had experienced. The focus throughout was on telling my story clearly and connecting it to Amazon's Leadership Principles. Because the pace w…
Interview experiences · Amazon
Amazon Account Executive interview experience: unannounced Excel task
A recruiter contacted me about a different account-management role. The email said the interview would be competency based and focused on Amazon Leadership Principles. There was not supposed to be an HR prescreen, and the confirmation did not suggest a complicated set of materials. On the day, the format changed in a frustrating way. I was suddenly given an Excel-sheet task without advance notice…
Interview experiences · Amazon
Amazon Account Executive interview: STAR answers under strict timing
My process mixed structure with friction. I went through multiple stages centered on behavioral evaluation, with questions mapped to Amazon Leadership Principles and answered in a STAR-style format. In one phase, I worked through tasks with others and found it hard to finish everything on time, especially while collaborating with people I did not know. Across the rounds, interviewers wanted detai…
Interview experiences · Amazon
Amazon Account Executive interview: strict behavioral calibration
The first call set a hard tone. It felt as though the interviewer had very strict expectations: if an answer was not perfect, or was even a little off, the message was that I would not be a fit for the role. Even with that pressure, the process followed a recognizable behavioral format. The questions were tied to my experience and to how I had handled prior situations. The atmosphere shifted betw…
Interview experiences · Amazon Advertising
Amazon Advertising Customer Success Engineer interview: leadership and coding loop
After applying, I completed an online assessment before scheduling began. The early part felt fairly straightforward: a mostly technical phone step came first, then I moved into a loop after clearing it. I spoke with several interviewers in the loop, where technical problem solving sat alongside Amazon-style leadership discussion. The loop included coding, system design, and a bar raiser. The cod…
Interview experiences · Amazon Advertising
Amazon Advertising Software Engineer interview: ambiguous practical programming task
The questions were practical programming prompts rather than textbook-only coding. The first was fairly trivial math. The second was interactive: I had to work out what the interviewer wanted, then implement several functions to make it work. That second task stretched me because it required clarification and interpretation. I had to check my understanding early and keep iterating until the imple…
Interview experiences · Amazon Advertising
Amazon Advertising Software Engineer interview: delayed New York onsite
After the OA, I waited about three months before Amazon Advertising invited me to an onsite in New York. The onsite was condensed into back-to-back rounds: SWE-style interviews followed by a managerial round. The long delay cost me some momentum before the loop began. Once it started, the technical conversations were straightforward, and the manager-adjacent discussion looked at how I would opera…
Interview experiences · Amazon Advertising
Amazon Advertising Software Engineer interview: DSA and work style
The on-campus process had two standardized rounds, each with a live DSA coding problem and Amazon work-style questions. The coding was assessed for correctness and for how I reasoned about time and space complexity. The behavioral part used Leadership Principles such as Ownership, Bias for Action, and Customer Obsession. Those prompts followed a 'tell me about a time' format, so I answered with S…
Interview experiences · Amazon Advertising
Amazon Advertising Software Engineer Interview Experience: A four-part OA with AI-assisted debugging
I started with an online assessment in four parts. First was a 40-minute HackerRank coding test with standard DSA questions. Second was 60 minutes of AI-assisted coding in a project-repository environment, where I had to trace a simple bug, such as why a request was not committing to the database. The available options included Node.js, Springboot, C++, and Django. Third came 30 minutes of workpl…
Interview experiences · Amazon Advertising
Amazon Advertising Software Engineer Interview Experience: an intern assessment and teamwork questions
The process began with an online assessment combining coding and aptitude questions. After passing it, I was invited to one or two technical interviews on data structures, algorithms, object-oriented programming, and general problem-solving. The final round included behavioral questions about communication, teamwork, and fit for a software development engineer intern role. It felt as though they…
Interview experiences · Amazon Advertising
Amazon Advertising Software Engineer Interview Experience: an online coding interview after a hackathon
An Amazon Hackathon led to an online interview. The interviewer was friendly and approachable, and we began with a basic introduction. The coding felt medium in difficulty and followed the format I'd expected when moving from a hackathon to an interview. I didn't get an offer, but the process was straightforward and the tone stayed positive. I'd call the overall difficulty average. Feeling comfor…
Interview experiences · Amazon Advertising
Amazon Advertising Software Engineer interview experience: coding and leadership principles
I began with an online assessment that had one data-structure coding question and an AI coding question. Then came four interviews. Two combined data-structure coding with leadership-principles discussion, another paired low-level design with leadership principles, and the bar-raiser-style round was leadership principles only. Leadership themes came up even in rounds that otherwise felt technical…
Interview experiences · Amazon Advertising
Amazon Advertising Software Engineer Interview Experience: confidence intervals alongside DSA
After resume shortlisting, I completed an OA and two virtual interview rounds. The process focused on DSA, gen-AI discussion, and my projects. The DSA work leaned toward arrays, stacks, and subsequence-style problems, with behavioral questions mixed into the sessions. One tightly timed part had probability and statistics estimation questions. I had to give the answers and say how confident I was…
Interview experiences · Amazon Advertising
Amazon Advertising Software Engineer Interview Experience: difficult communication and teamwork evaluation
The process felt organized and professional from start to finish. The interviews covered my technical background, software engineering experience, problem solving, and communication. The interviewers were friendly and seemed interested in how I would work on a team as well as what I could build. The questions went beyond puzzle solving into judgment, collaboration, and explaining my thinking clea…
Interview experiences · Amazon Advertising
Amazon Advertising Software Engineer Interview Experience: difficult DSA and web debugging
The online assessment was rough from the start. The first LeetCode-style problem was manageable, but the later questions quickly reached medium to hard difficulty. I completed the first, brute-forced the next, and never reached the third. Later rounds stayed heavily focused on DSA. One used hard, ad-hoc graph problems. Another asked me to debug a web app with a very limited AI assistant. It could…