I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2012
Interview
I submitted my resume on University career fair in early February, and took two phone interviews by two different interviewers in March 14th.
The first interviewer only asked me three programming questions, including Palindrome, Sorting and design an image scaling function. It took about 45 mins. He asked my to write the code via a shared document editor.
The second interviewer asked my background, data structure questions and two programming questions, he didn't let me use any editor, he asked me to write down the code on a paper, then read it word by word. Since I am not a native speaker, I found that I was not able to pronounce some of the symbols, I had to describe some pieces of my code for him. Also 45 mins.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write down your code on a paper, and read it to me through the phone.
Recruiter screen, followed by an online coding assessment and then a technical phone interview. The final round was a virtual onsite loop with multiple interviews covering data structures, system design, debugging, and Amazon Leadership Principles. The technical questions were practical but time-constrained, and the behavioural questions required specific examples using the STAR format.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a scalable URL shortening service and explain how you would handle high read traffic, collisions, database schema, expiration, and basic monitoring.
That moment when the interviewer asked about finding indices in an array for a target sum was wild — I had just tackled something identical while prepping on PracHub. The interview included a technical round with another question about designing an in-memory LRU cache and a behavioral question about meeting tight deadlines. After a smooth discussion, I was told I'd received an offer, which I happily accepted. Overall, the process felt pretty straightforward and not overly challenging.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Given an array of integers return the indices of two numbers summing to a target
Interviewed for silicon team. Have only been asked about the domain specific knowledge in 1st round and system design in 2nd round and C coding in 3rd round.
The interviews were 50 mins each.