I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2019
Interview
I live in Seattle so only a matter of time before a recruiter reached out to me. After an HR intro call, I did a 90 minute coding evaluation. Then I had a 1 hour phone screen with the hiring manager. After that was the on-site consisting of one hour interviews: 1 system design question, 3 coding questions, and a behavioral interview. Each system & coding interview had about 15-20 minutes of behavioral questions (you can find these questions online). They did give me the option of coding on a laptop instead of a whiteboard but when I actually got to the onsite they didn't let me use the laptop.
One of the interviewers was the best one I've ever had, not only did I feel like we collaborated on the coding question I actually walked away learning something new. On the flip side, another interviewer was one of the worst interviewers I've ever had - she wasn't paying attention and I had to repeat questions to her and her phone kept going off the entire interview and she never bothered to silence it. The recruiters were a mixed bag as well, with my initial recruiter being completely professional while my main recruiter barely acknowledged I existed and always seemed like he had better things to do.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Standard stuff, no surprises: System design, LRU cache, Trapping rain water, Binary tree question, behavioral questions (if you google the leadership characteristics you can find lists of exactly the questions they're asking - only 2 of the roughly 20 behavioral questions I was asked weren't on the lists I found)
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