I applied online. The process took 8 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Vancouver, BC) in Jul 2014
Interview
Interview with payment team, after 2 phone interviews, Amazon invited me to Vancouver office with 4 interview. From 8am~12PM, there are 4 questions, 2 algorthm/coding questions, 2 OOD questions, the interviewers from different groups
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
for the OOD questions, it is too brief to answer it, e.g. design a libaray managment system, just one sentence without any detail even you ask which functions should be consinder.
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