I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Amazon in Oct 2011
Interview
There were two phone interviews on consecutive days. Each was about an hour, and they asked a series of technical questions. The questions weren't too hard, and you were given as much time as you needed to complete it. Once done, they asked you to read and explain your code and they talked it over with you, making suggestions and questioning your process. If there was a better answer, they helped you find it to see if you could understand their method too.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Use object oriented programming to design a deck of cards.
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.