I applied through college or university. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Mar 2012
Interview
I had 3 in-person interviews, each with a different rep, and one by phone. One of the interviews focused on OO design and DB design. The second focused on Data structures and the third one on simple coding questions and recursion. This was for a fresh-out-of-college software engineer, so the level of difficulty wasn't so high, certainly nowhere near the legendary insane questions Google or MS are known to ask. I did well on those three interviews, but not so well on the phone one (more coding questions). My impression was that each interviewer then casts a vote, since I was given an offer despite my poor performance on the last interview. I wasn't asked to go to Seattle for interviews.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Design (in Object Oriented manner) a restaurant reservation service. No coding necessary beyond class names and method names and rough description of how they work. Then design the SQL database for this system (table names, columns and foreign keys)
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