I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Amazon in Sep 2020
Interview
I applied for the 6 month internship through college.
Round 1 (Online Assessment): This was conducted on AMCAT. It had 4 sections (total 2.5 hrs)-
1. Code debugging section - 7 questions, C/C++/Java (20 minutes)
2. Coding section - 2 questions (70 minutes)
3. Workstyle assessment (20 minutes)
4. Reasoning ability - 24 questions (35 minutes) - we could not skip and return to a question
38 students were selected for online interviews.
Round 2 (F2F Technical Interview): This was conducted on their own platform Amazon Chime (1 hr)-
First I had to give an introduction about myself. Then 2 coding questions were asked.
Round 3 (F2F Technical Interview): (1 hr)-
Again a brief introduction about myself. Then 2 coding questions were asked.
15 students got the offer for internship, I was one of them.
Note -
1. even if you are not able to give the correct solution, try to build your solution considering all the cases given by the interviewer. I did the same in one question and it really helped.
2. Amazon focuses only on DS Algo and their leadership principles.
3. They ask questions mostly on Tree, Graph, DP, Stack (in the decreasing order of frequency)
My Amazon interview process started with an online assessment that included behavioral questions based on Amazon’s Leadership Principles and a coding assessment.
After passing the online assessment, I moved on to the in person interviews. My first interview was with the hiring manager and focused mostly on behavioral questions tied to Amazon’s Leadership Principles. We also discussed my previous experience and projects. Toward the end, I was given a system design coding problem.
After that, I interviewed with a lead engineer and another engineer. That interview was more technical and included a LeetCode style coding problem. I had to explain my thought process, work through the problem, and discuss my solution with both engineers. Made it to the final round of interviews
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions on System design and LeetCode style question
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Vancouver, BC)
Interview
One online assessment and one virtual interview included a coding round and leadership principle questions; overall, the process was fairly straightforward and not overly challenging for me throughout the experience.
2 rounds:
1st round: 3 behaviorals: Tell me about yourself, tell me about a time you used Gen AI, tell me about a time you faced a problem in one of your experiences
Leetcode similar to LRU Cache but a variant
2nd round: 3 more behaviorals; tell me about yourself, a specific experience in my internship, a time you disagreed with manager/peer on a project