I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon in Jul 2025
Interview
The Amazon interview starts with an online assessment/elimination round (coding + work simulation).
If you pass, you move to technical/behavioral screening.
Next is the loop round with 4 back-to-back interviews, covering coding, design, and Leadership Principles.
Finally, interviewers debrief and if you meet the bar, you get an offer stage discussion.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about something you had to learn from scratch, and what alternatives would you take if you were to do it again with the knowledge you have now?
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.
First round with hr screening - 2 leetcode questions then hr manager screening then the loop which consists of 4 interviews each an hour long. The 4 interview questions they asked where three medium leetcode questions. And one system design interview question about how to shadow deploy a test software to millions of users.
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.