I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Apr 2025
Interview
The interview was 3 hours long and quite straightforward. The questions were challenging but not unsolvable. The first hour, I was solving a depth-first search problem, which was fine. I refrained from asking questions to the interviewer because her accent was so strong that I couldn't understand much of what she was saying, but the problem was manageable. The second hour for me was enjoyable and very easy. The interviewer just had me implement functions that he requested. The third hour was arguably the worst hour I have spent in an interview. The questions were challenging, and it didn't help that whenever I asked the interviewer for clarity, I couldn't understand him at all because of his accent. I was really frustrated by 30 minute mark because I felt like I spent more time deciphering what the interviewer was saying versus solving the problem.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Can you describe a time when you owned an end-to-end development process?
Interviewed for silicon team. Have only been asked about the domain specific knowledge in 1st round and system design in 2nd round and C coding in 3rd round.
The interviews were 50 mins each.
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.
Recruiter reaches out after applying through Amazon careers, no referral. Had an initial OA, then after a month had four rounds in two days - three coding one system design. Each round had 30 min behavioral and 30 min coding.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions were mainly hashmap, sliding window and interval related.