I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon Web Services (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2025
Interview
Stage 1 - Online Assessment
2 Leetcode questions and a Behavioural survey. Both were not hard.
Stage 2 - Virtual Phone Screen
1 hour interview. A couple of behavioural questions for the first 15 minutes and 35 minutes to solve 2 coding questions. Last 10 minutes for candidate to ask the interviewer questions. Behavioural questions are very important and you need to impress the interviewer early.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time you had a disagreement with a team mate?
I interviewed at Amazon Web Services (New York, NY)
Interview
I was asked Behavioral questions (leadership principles for disagree and commit, dive deep, take ownership) and a Technical (Medium difficulty LeetCode question). Interviewers were really nice and seem engaged during the interview.
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Amazon Web Services (Cape Town) in Feb 2026
Interview
2 technical interviews including a GenAI interview, like how would you ensure or validate the information given by AI.
First round was with a senior SDE, behaviourial and technical(1hour long) then 30 mins break. Then 1 hour with senior sde and hiring manager.
DSA, got asked stack questions but heard there was a lot of trees, tries, graphs, arrays, BFS, DFS. PROCESS was OA -> One round interview -> Offer. Overall super positive experience and interviewer was also really nice
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
DSA, got asked stack questions but heard there was a lot of trees, tries, graphs, arrays, BFS, DFS. PROCESS was OA -> One round interview -> Offer. Overall super positive experience and interviewer was also really nice
Stack question was what they asked me, but I heard a lot of people got trees/arrays