I applied online. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Amazon (London, England) in Mar 2022
Interview
Overall positive experience. The final interview was with three people from Amazon, asking me about values, experiences and then a short problem. I had to do some live coding for the short problem to show how I would solve it.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time you coped with a difficult situation.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Cape Town) in Sep 2025
Interview
I had a first phone screen, which was an hour long, had 15 minutes of Hr questions based on Leadership Principles, then 45 minutes of real-time coding problems, You need to know a bit much about DSA to be able to pass the coding challenges, you must think out loud.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is the difference between a binary tree and a binary search tree?
They asked basic questions about technical stuff, then another purely technical round where I was given one main coding problem, followed by 4 follow-up questions/variations based on the initial problem.
First stage was the OA and workstyles assessment. After getting through it I faced the phone screen interview and I didn't get through it. The coding question was a pretty standard product categorisation coding problem