How to succeed your Interview at Amazon

Assalamou Alaykom Everybody, and welcome back to Me. Yes I am actually back to the Dev and I will be sharing with you some tips as usual. Hope you keep always your positivity as you need it everywhere.

So, you may want to find a job at Amazon, which I think is an amazing company to work in. Just by reading their leadership pillars, you can understand easily how wonderful to work with such people.

It was my case. So i will share with you some tips to know before looking for a job at Amazon or google.

My first advice is to get prepared for the interviews before even applying. In fact, I have learnt just to get the required time to get ready before starting to search for new job. It may be even 1 year before begining. Oh yes that was surprising for me but I understood that to get really ready, you may require all this time.  

So the first move is to well prepare your CV, it should be attractive and concise. Well this is so hard to achieve especially for me, but I got a good advice from a recruiter who told me : "Short resume gives us the curiousity to know more about you". That day, I absolutely understand that I need to learn how to commercialize my resume and introduce some curiousity in the mind of the recruiter, who finally don't know me and receives handred of application daily. 

Think about that and add some positivity and special things in your Resume in order to make it more attractive. As i like design, I have decided to make a little bit of colors, a touch of joy as I don't like black resume. And trust me it works because you get out from the fleet with a special signature. So try to add your own signature that shows something of your personality and may. 

Now that the resume is ready, you need to prepare yourself to tell a story about your old jobs. Not a boring story, but a good ones:

•  What was your contribution and the result with tangible data if possible
• The challenges and Mistakes or failures
• What you would do better 
• Did you get any conflicts
• How you manage deadlines and problems

In fact, it's true that during the interviews we talk just superficially. We don't try to show exactly what we have faced during our projects, to talk frankly about some bad experiences. But I have learnt that we should come back to those experiences and describe what was successful and a distaster. 

At the end don't forget that we are presenting ourself as a human being not just a bench of technologies. I advice you also to have a look on Emotional Intelligence which is very important as part of your culture and personality. In fact you may have an extarordinary technical background, but the fact that you lack some intelligence in deeling with people may cause disasters. To be more successful, you need to learn how to share knowledges, encourage people around you and motivate them. So don't forget to show that also.

Now coming back to some tips with Amazon interview. The first one is a technical and small behavior test. And trust me, it is not easy to succeed it even if you are a senior software engineer. Yes, indeed, those tests require some knowlege about algorithms that we don't use in our daily tasks.

You may say what't the need of such tests. It was my first thought, but when I had a look on those tests, it was just amazing how lovely and challenging they are. I may stay nights without sleeping thinking about a tricky solution. 

So, as you are looking for Amazon position and preparing for an interview, try first to get ready with those nice problems and solve many of them before applying. One of the best website to get ready is leetcode.com. It's just gorgious not only because you write your solution but also you can compare it with other solutions in terms of performances and that's an amazing thing.

You can create an account on  leetcode.com and start with easy, medium then hard problems. It will give you a good chance to integrate Amazon or Google by getting trained and explaining your solution, performances and used strategy.

Another resource that you can use is a very good book named "Cracking the Coding Interview 189 Programming Questions and Solutions". It gives good details and strategies about how to get ready for interviews with big companies like Amazon, Apple, and Google. You can fin it online and take somtime reading it but it's worthy.

That's my advices for today. Hope for you the best and share with me your tips, i would like to hear from you. 

Enjoy the Day.