I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2011
Interview
I Applied Online and got a call for onsite interview. There was some interview event going on and so I did not have to appear for Phone interview prior to this interview. I was flied to Seattle and had four rounds of interview. All the questions were focused on Algorithms and Data Structures.
Questions were 1. "Solve a maze", you have a 2D matrix with 1's as blocked and 0's as path. Find a path from one corner to another, backtracking should be allowed.
2. Prove that tree is BST.
3. Ransom note problem - prepare a note(array) from a given magazine(array).
4. Keep track of history of users of Amazon site in pairs of 3 pages that they have consecutively visited.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
"Solve a maze", you have a 2D matrix with 1's as blocked and 0's as path. Find a path from one corner to another, backtracking should be allowed.
2.Prove that tree is BST.
3. Ransom note problem - prepare a note(array) from a given magazine(array).
4. Keep track of history of users of Amazon site in pairs of 3 pages that they have consecutively visited.
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