I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2015
Interview
I applied to this position through campus job board. I got an email from Amazon recruiting team asking my availability for the on-site interview. After that they sent me flight tickets, hotel reservation and some study materials through an email. Overall experience was great since they reimbursed all the expenses that I made including transportation and meals and it was a nice experience to group together with variety of people that I first met and coding project was challenging but exciting to work on.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How did your group divided the work between members and who was the leader?
Recruiter screen, online assessment, technical interviews, and behavioral rounds focused heavily on Amazon Leadership Principles. The process was structured, with a strong emphasis on problem-solving, coding skills, and examples demonstrating impact and ownership.
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