I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon (Vancouver, BC) in Dec 2020
Interview
It was good experience. All interviewer were very kind and helpful. I was asked good questions, basically they wanted to see how I approach the problems and I am good at solving them or not.
Stages:
1- 30 mins HR phone call. Your past experiences and 2 Leadership questions.
2- Codility assigment: I was assigned a codility test and was asked take it with in 1 week. There were 2 tasks 105 mins. After each task there was a following question which asks explain your solution and calculate time and space complexity. First one was simple straight forward solution just needs to be careful about edge cases. The second one was a bit more difficult. I used graph with object oriented design
3- Online onsite interview: It was online due to Covid-19 situations and took 4 hours. There were 4 parts at each parts I was asked 2-3 Leadership principle questions. First tree part was medium-difficulty coding questions just like codility. Actually I saw one of them in codility before. You should know data structures very well for example you should be able to answer why you preferred Sorted Map over Unsorted one or vise-versa. Last one was system design question. Overall there are 10-15 system design questions are asked in all interviews so you will definitely be asked one of them.
I applied through a staffing agency. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in May 2026
Interview
There were a total of 2 rounds:
The first round was with an SDE II on Data Structures/Algo - Leet code questions mainly
The second rounds was with an SDM Behavioral/System Design - Leadership principles and past work experience impact.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon in Feb 2026
Interview
Recruiter explicitly mentioned that the Technical Phone Screen interview did not contain any Behavioral question but the interviewer definitely asked 3 behavioral questions.
The coding problem was utterly garbage, it was a pretty trivial problem that anyone that knows DFS would be able to solve. That is not appropriate for a SDE 2 role. Not even useful to demonstrate candidate skills
PS: They care a lot more about what you've accomplished than whatever you can accomplish based on your skills
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Tell me about a time when you had to meet a tight deadline
2. Tell me about a time when you had to do more than what you were required to do
3. Tell me about a time where you made a significant impact on a customer
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Bengaluru) in Sep 2025
Interview
5 rounds of interviews
1. OA (2 Medium Hard Questions along with some Work Related Assessment which tested design related concepts)
2. HLD
3. DSA
4. LLD
5. Bar Raiser
Technically, the questions were of medium difficulty and with good polish, you should be able to solve these questions. The main challenge in Amazon is of the Leadership Principles which involve citing real work experience in the STAR format.
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