I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Toronto, ON) in May 2021
Interview
I initially applied online through Amazon Jobs page and received a reply to complete the Online Assessments in March. I completed 3 rounds of OAs over a span of 2 weeks and received the invitation to the Final Interview which I had it scheduled for May.
The final virtual on-site interview consisted of 3 sessions, each being 45 minutes long. For each session, around 10-15 minutes are spent first with behavioural type questions on variuos Leadership Principles, and the rest are spent for Data Structure and Algorithms type questions.
The DS&A questions were usually started off with a very simple question, and when I got it correctly, they built up from the question with additional constraints/performance improvements.
It took them 5 business days to get back to me with the result.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Q: Did you make any mistakes and what did you learn from it?
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.