I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jun 2016
Interview
I submitted my resume to many recruiters in LinkedIn and one of them sent me a document. This doc had one algorithm question which was easy and one system design problem with 3 questions. I took two days to solve the system design question. Two weeks later, I was setup for onsite interview at Seattle. They covered travel, accommodation and dining expenses.
Onsite interview was medium-hard difficulty.
I had 4 rounds starting in the afternoon (no lunch).
All rounds were of 45 min duration with 30min technical and 15min behavorial
1st round - algorithm (interview went good)
2nd round - distributed system (interview was okay)
3rd round - system and object oriented design (bad..)
4th round - bar raiser - algorithm question. (good)
It seemed that each interviewer was targeting on some specific leadership principle during behavioral interview.
Be very prepared with genuine examples where you have demonstrated leadership principles.
Do not let one bad interview round affect the next one.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Open ended discussion on how to scale and store data and have fallback servers and databases.
It started with an OA, and then after a few weeks, I got invited to four rounds of interviews: technical and behavioral at 3 of the 4, and behavioral only at one.
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Calgary, AB) in Jun 2026
Interview
Online Assessment is the first step in the process. I didn’t have an HR phone screening and went straight to the OA after applying. It was sent to me about a week after I submitted my application.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The first question is LeetCode style algorithms question, and the second question gives a full stack repo (choice of Java, NodeJS, or Django) and asks to solve a backend issue which is causing a bug in the frontend. Unit tests must pass to pass the second question. You can run both backend/frontend indivdually or together
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Santa Clara, CA) in Jun 2026
Interview
Recruiter reached out and set up an onsite loop after the initial steps. Four back to back rounds in one day. Two coding heavy rounds run by senior engineers, one round with the hiring manager, and one behavioral round with a bar raiser. Mix of leadership principles and data structures throughout. Heard back within a week.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Standard BFS grid problem. Given a grid, find the time for all cells to reach a target state where the spread happens one layer at a time.
How did you answer: Clarified the constraints, walked through the approach, then coded a clean BFS from all starting points at once. Tracked the number of layers until everything was covered.