I applied through college or university. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Mar 2011
Interview
Applied through my university career site and got a call from Amazon within 2 weeks. First telephonic interview lasted for roughly an hour and I was asked various questions involving Data Structures and Algorithms. Finally I was given the task of implementing and Binary Search Tree (involve all BST operations) and mailing the code of the amazon recruiter.
I cleared the first round and then second telephonic interview was schedule which lasted for hardly 15min (I suppose the recruiter did not like me at all :-|), and then within 48hrs I got rejection email from Amazon.
Good luck to all those applying for job.
ps: Data structures and Algorithms are two very important topics as far as the interview is concerned. Also, go over 'Hash Maps'. Amazon recruiters will certainly ask one question on hash maps.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Implement a BST (involving all operations) and mail the code by the end of the day.
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