I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon in Oct 2020
Interview
There was an online test consisting of MCQs from CS concepts, data structure, general aptitude. Also, there were 7 debugging questions and 2 programming questions. Along with this, there was a psychometric test.
It was followed by two technical interview rounds.
Followed by this there were two technical rounds in which they asked coding questions from medium to hard level.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Technical interview round 1: Q1. https://leetcode.com/problems/product-of-array-except-self/
q.2 simple string-based question using stacks.
Round 2: Q1. Find the previous permutation.
Q.2 right view of the n-ary tree.
Hackerrank round first and then two LC questions as the final round (BFS/DFS medium). Also had a behaviour component, testing the leadership principles and how my experiences aligned with them.
Expect one behavioral LP question followed by a leetcode medium or hard for two rounds. Be prepared to answer in depth on the behavioral questions and review LeetCode’s list of questions from Amazon.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about what AI platforms you use to help you work more efficiently
HR interview, then I had 1 45 minute coding round with 10 minutes behavioral and 35 minutes coding. Behavioral round was typical star format questions probing at leadership principles. Ex. Tell me about a time you took initiative and it didn’t work out.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an m x n grid of characters board and a string word, return true if word exists in the grid.