I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Nov 2015
Interview
The process was quite straight forward. I was contacted via email from a recruiter inviting me to make a 2 hours exercise from my home. I did the following weekend and I did reasonable ok. Even, I was not aware about the platform used and this was a real impact factor in my overall performance. Anyway, even I was assuming that it was the end, the recruiter called me the monday after explain me that i did ok but they wanted to conduct a phone interview. I did and I solved the questions (relatively easy) by phone (mostly coding interview). Then, I was invited to Seattle the week after. I meet with 7 engineers, senior software managers and the hiring manager. Some of the interviews were hard but in average I feel that the interviews were ok. It was a great experience, I met great and smart people and had great technical discussions. That afternoon, they indicated me that I had an offer, so the end of the tale was great :-).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
One of the questions of the phone interview ( I cannot share the campus interviews) was "given an array of integers, return the maximum sum of the three consecutive integers in the array".
I applied through a staffing agency. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in May 2026
Interview
There were a total of 2 rounds:
The first round was with an SDE II on Data Structures/Algo - Leet code questions mainly
The second rounds was with an SDM Behavioral/System Design - Leadership principles and past work experience impact.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon in Feb 2026
Interview
Recruiter explicitly mentioned that the Technical Phone Screen interview did not contain any Behavioral question but the interviewer definitely asked 3 behavioral questions.
The coding problem was utterly garbage, it was a pretty trivial problem that anyone that knows DFS would be able to solve. That is not appropriate for a SDE 2 role. Not even useful to demonstrate candidate skills
PS: They care a lot more about what you've accomplished than whatever you can accomplish based on your skills
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Tell me about a time when you had to meet a tight deadline
2. Tell me about a time when you had to do more than what you were required to do
3. Tell me about a time where you made a significant impact on a customer
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Bengaluru) in Sep 2025
Interview
5 rounds of interviews
1. OA (2 Medium Hard Questions along with some Work Related Assessment which tested design related concepts)
2. HLD
3. DSA
4. LLD
5. Bar Raiser
Technically, the questions were of medium difficulty and with good polish, you should be able to solve these questions. The main challenge in Amazon is of the Leadership Principles which involve citing real work experience in the STAR format.