I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Mumbai) in Apr 2024
Interview
Amazon’s interview process begins with resume screening, followed by a recruiter phone screen to assess your background and alignment with Amazon’s Leadership Principles. Next is a technical or functional phone interview, often involving coding or role-specific questions. The final stage is the onsite “Loop,” a series of 4–6 interviews covering behavioral and technical competencies. One interviewer is a Bar Raiser who ensures high hiring standards. After the interviews, a hiring committee reviews all feedback to make a decision. If successful, you’ll receive an offer and can negotiate. Preparation should focus heavily on Amazon’s 16 Leadership Principles and core job skills.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about yourself? why you want to join this company?
expallain me the role?
Interviewed for silicon team. Have only been asked about the domain specific knowledge in 1st round and system design in 2nd round and C coding in 3rd round.
The interviews were 50 mins each.
The phone screen went longer than expected, focusing heavily on implementation details. The interviewer really grilled me on my approach to a Least Recently Used (LRU) cache, asking how I'd combine a hashmap with a doubly linked list. I felt well-prepared since I had gone through system design examples on PracHub, which made me comfortable discussing eviction policies. The later rounds included more technical questions and behavioral interviews, but in the end, I received an offer, though I ultimately decided to decline. Overall, I’d say the process was average, with solid questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design and implement a Least Recently Used (LRU) cache supporting get(key) and put(key, value) in O(1) average time. Walk through combining a hashmap with a doubly linked list, eviction policy when capacity is exceeded, and how you'd extend it to handle thread-safe concurrent access.
Recruiter reaches out after applying through Amazon careers, no referral. Had an initial OA, then after a month had four rounds in two days - three coding one system design. Each round had 30 min behavioral and 30 min coding.
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Question 1
Questions were mainly hashmap, sliding window and interval related.