I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2011
Interview
Applied online through the local campus career center. Initially was supposed to have an on-campus interview although due to extenuating circumstances, some of these interviews were canceled. Spoke with recruiting and was later scheduled for two phone interviews scheduled. The hiring process consisted of two back-to-back interviews each 45 minutes in length. The first interviewer was straight down to business and asked me some programming questions while the second one took some time to answer any questions I had about the company before asking me some programming as well as design and behavioral questions. Both interviewers were courteous and gave me the time I needed to solve the presented problems. One piece of advice I would offer is to verbalize your thoughts when attempting to solve a problem so that the interviewers can get a feel for your thought process and nudge you in the right direction if you are a little stumped on a particular question.
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
What do you know about Binary Trees? Write a function that outputs the contents of a Binary Tree to a text file. Write a function that parses from a text file and creates a Binary Tree.
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