I applied through college or university. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Waterloo, ON) in Oct 2012
Interview
The interview process was done through JobMine (Internship - I'm from Waterloo). The two "stages" were 45-minute technical interviews with two current developers on the team. Most of the code is on paper, but in some cases algorithm analysis and runtime analysis (big-O, specifically) is considered in your solutions. Be prepared for many questions on data structures and their implementations.
In the coding problems, they ideally want you to work in Java or C/C++. I did stuff in Scheme, which they did not appreciate.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
In a collection of strings, output the string that occurs most often.
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