I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Amazon in Sep 2024
Interview
The interview process was quite lengthy. After applying, it took about a month to receive an invite for a nearly 3-hour Online Assessment which included two coding problems (70 minutes), work simulations, and work style questions. About a month later, I received the VO survey, followed by scheduling the virtual onsite interview. This round consisted of three one-hour interviews, all in a single day. While the interviewers were friendly, the questions were more challenging than expected. One of them was an innovative dynamic programming problem, which was tougher than what I had anticipated based on others' experiences.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Make short-term sacrifice for long-term goal (priority, user experience)
2. Halfway through a project, realize it might not be the right goal or you need extra time
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.
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.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions were mainly hashmap, sliding window and interval related.