I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jul 2025
Interview
OA with 2 questions 70 minutes on HackerRank, then virtual onsite (3 rounds 1 hour each)
Virtual onsite rounds: 1. full behavorial/LP round, 2. two behavioral/LP and 1 coding question, 3. two coding questions for bar raiser round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Behavorial:
Why Amazon
Time when you got challenging problem
Time when you got problem and didn’t have much experience there
Time where you got hard feedback
Time you faced unfamiliar problem
Time when you had tight deadline, deliver results under pressure
Coding:
- Shortest Path for Delivery Queries. Similar to walls and gates. Multisource BFS
- string parsing. given list of strings with delimiters containing users and their attributes, determine all users with a certain attribute.
- top k most frequent things, given list of things
Interview by recuriter, Phone interview over Chime with one easy Leet code problem and 2 behavioral questions. Although the interviewer was very casual at the start of the conversation, it quickly changed into behavioral questions at the start.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Encoding optimization algorithm and talk about a project you did recently.
First round is just leet code coding which screens through AI before going into live coding. Pretty simple and straighforward. Not too tough. Recruiter walks through it pretty nicely. Not sure how many rounds there are exactly
After submitting my application for the Software Engineer position, I received an invitation to complete an automated Online Assessment (OA). The assessment consisted of standard coding challenges, primarily focusing on algorithmic and data structure problems. Unfortunately, a few days after submitting my solutions for the assessment, I received an email informing me that I would not be moving forward in the interview process and was rejected.