I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2013
Interview
I applied on the university career website. Got a call saying they are interested in interviewing me. Setup two interviews for a scheduled day. First person dint call as I think he couldnt connect, or got busy. Second interview went smooth. He asked me to write a simple program, swapping two variables values. Then asked about linked list, hash-maps, pros and cons of each, time complexities. After a week second interview was setup, he asked questions on similar lines. Like, writing a code to reverse a string, discussed time-complexities, different sorting algorithms, and different data structures.
Got a call after a long while with an internship offer.
It had 2 rounds, and each one had some behavioral questions as well as one technical question. The behavioral questions were about different group work situations that I had before, and I had to describe them. The technical questions were LeetCode medium.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe a situation when you had a conflict with your supervisor.
The role I was interviewed for is SDET. It was through our campus placements. There was an initial screening test, followed by 2 more online interview rounds. The screening round consisted of 7 chapters, like OOPS, Database, Linux, Computer Networks, Programming and so on.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The screening round was an online test for like 3 hours. It went well, and I was selected for that. But in the actual interview, I was initially asked about my projects and 2 DSA Questions. The first DSA question was a maximum subarray-based question, and the second question was a finding the shortest path in a graph-based question
The interview was heavily focused on GenAI and Amazon Leadership Principles. The Technical Manager did a deep dive into my approach to prompting LLMs and how I optimize workflows using them. In contrast, the SDE Engineer’s questions were more direct and strongly centered around Leadership Principles.
