I applied in-person. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (San Jose, San Jose)
Interview
It's a lengthy process that takes up an entire morning or afternoon, depending on the time you are scheduled. You will have 4 technical interviews and one with someone from HR. The technical interviews will try to see different skills, problem resolution, architecture and design, etc. And each of them will also try to test you for one of Amazon's "leadership principles" (they do send you info on that when you get contacted and scheduled for the interview) so try to read them and come up with an example of a situation in which you have shown each of them, you WILL get asked for one of them by each of the technical interviewers.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Almost certainly you will get asked the "starry night" question, or some variant of it: there is an image of the sky, let's say a bitmap (matrix) where each pixel is either white or black, white meaning it is part of a star. Write an algorithm to figure out which is the biggest star.
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