I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Mar 2010
Interview
I had 2 phone screens followed by a on-site interview in Seattle. The phone screens were pretty standard - binary trees problem, 1 object oriented design problem, coding problem. The onsite interview was slightly tougher than phone screen but not very much. I had 2 split interviews where 1 interview would ask questions while the other make notes. This was my bar raiser interview. Though the question was tough, they were looking at how I approached the question, clarifications asked and use of standard algorithms to fit to the problem. Most of their questions were tough but nothing crazy- simple problems but require proper coding, tricky algo problems (pseudo code), few design problems.
It is tiring by the end of the day. My mind was almost shut off during the last interview, but the interviewer was kind enough to acknowledge it and give additional time. Most the interviewers were extremely cordial and explained their questions clearly. They were ready to accept different approaches to answers. I really enjoyed the whole process.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Design the Boggle Game. (Given a 4x4 character matrix, output all possible words by moving through the matrix)
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
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Santa Clara, CA) in Jun 2026
Interview
Recruiter reached out and set up an onsite loop after the initial steps. Four back to back rounds in one day. Two coding heavy rounds run by senior engineers, one round with the hiring manager, and one behavioral round with a bar raiser. Mix of leadership principles and data structures throughout. Heard back within a week.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Standard BFS grid problem. Given a grid, find the time for all cells to reach a target state where the spread happens one layer at a time.
How did you answer: Clarified the constraints, walked through the approach, then coded a clean BFS from all starting points at once. Tracked the number of layers until everything was covered.