I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Cape Town) in Nov 2024
Interview
They interview you on the fundamentals of optimising code to be more efficient or simpler with concepts of data structures, recursion and soo on, they may ask you to write code to write code to check if a word is a palindrome
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a function to check if a word is a palindrome
The interview was basically a screening round, It was just a quick interview to get to know if I was worth the company's time. The dsa round was pretty easy but once they got into system design it was harder.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked dsa questions like trapping rain water and a stack question similar to valid parenthesis.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
first round was leetcode for 1hour, got easy 2 questions
then final round has 2 leetcode session and 1 system design and 1 lld session. each session has also leadership principle.
Leetcode questions was easy-medium.
Leadership principle was hard
I had issue with screensharing it wasted 10-15 min during the first round of interview
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
leet code - array and string questions. easy and medium level
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.