I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2007
Interview
I had a phone screen with one of the senior engineers on the team. He asked me a series of software engineering questions involving Object Oriented design. It wasn't too hard of an interview as they started off with feeler questions such as "What is polymorphism? What is a hash table" It then moved on to algorithms where they wanted me to come up with the algorithm to shuffle a deck of cards. Afterwards, they wanted me to analyze the Big O(n) run time of my algorithm. I was then invited to an on campus interview that consisted of talking to 4 different software engineers. Every single engineer was constantly making me code on the whiteboard. I would definitely practice coding on the whiteboard before coming to the interview. They didn't care which language I used. They also have a bar raiser who is supposed to make you sweat. All in all, the interview process was fair.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
How would you implement a top 3 word count in a text editor application?
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