I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Sep 2016
Interview
Initial call from an internal recruiter, then a technical phone screen and a behavioral interview. Was immediately told that I passed the interview and they would like to proceed to an in-person interview. Someone would call me to arrange travel.
Since no one called after 5 days, I followed up with an inquiry about scheduling an onsite interview. I was told that someone would be in touch shortly.
Then, a week later, I received a call that they had changed their minds, but there was no information available about why.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Several questions on big-o complexity of searching different data structures
Recruiter screen, followed by an online coding assessment and then a technical phone interview. The final round was a virtual onsite loop with multiple interviews covering data structures, system design, debugging, and Amazon Leadership Principles. The technical questions were practical but time-constrained, and the behavioural questions required specific examples using the STAR format.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a scalable URL shortening service and explain how you would handle high read traffic, collisions, database schema, expiration, and basic monitoring.
That moment when the interviewer asked about finding indices in an array for a target sum was wild — I had just tackled something identical while prepping on PracHub. The interview included a technical round with another question about designing an in-memory LRU cache and a behavioral question about meeting tight deadlines. After a smooth discussion, I was told I'd received an offer, which I happily accepted. Overall, the process felt pretty straightforward and not overly challenging.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Given an array of integers return the indices of two numbers summing to a target
First round with hr screening - 2 leetcode questions then hr manager screening then the loop which consists of 4 interviews each an hour long. The 4 interview questions they asked where three medium leetcode questions. And one system design interview question about how to shadow deploy a test software to millions of users.