First Contact: Development Engineer" To Work at
First Contact: Development Engineer" To Work at
First Contact: Development Engineer" To Work at
I had the
first contact in January and the outcome of the interview in
April. They are not slow, but the procedure is made by some
different phases:
First Contact
Coding Challenge
Technical call with a team member
Call with the team Manager
Onsite interview
Get the offer
Negotiate the offer (optional)
First contact
The first contact happened on Linkedin. The recruiter is
looking for an “experienced Full Stack software
development engineer” to work at Amazon Web
Services in Dublin, Ireland.
Coding challenge
The coding challenge is a programming online exercise
hosted on the Codility platform. It includes 2 exercises that
must be completed within 3 hours. The Rules are:
And so on..
The question topics are various and range on the whole web
world, these are some I remember:
Closure
XSS
Polymorphism
Proxy
CSS display, float
differences between ==e ===
CORS
use strict
Interfaces
Data Structures
Array Linked List
Tree (Tree, Binary Tree, Binary Search Tree, Red-Black
Tree, etc.)
Heap Hash Table Stack Queue
Trie
Graph (both directed and undirected)
Algorithms
Sorting Bubble
Sort Merge
Sort Quick Sort
Radix/Bucket Sort
Traversals (On multiple data structures)
Depth First Search
Breadth First Search
Object-Oriented Design
Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
Web Development
Designing Web Applications
Internet Topics
Leadership Principles
Those are the possible arguments, doesn’t mean they are all
asked. I feel prepared for some of them, not about lot others.
I start to study and revise all that stuff.
Example:
Final thoughts
The whole process was a great experience, I learned a lot of
new stuff. I (They) tested myself, that is always a good thing.