The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (San Jose, CA) in Mar 2012
Interview
I was contacted by a recruiter after applying through Amazon's career site. The interviewer was very friendly. Began by explaining the unit in which he worked. He then asked me to describe my background a bit which he used to segue into asking me to describe a project I have worked on, how it was implemented and what I would do to improve the project if I were to re-do that project today. He included some questions about data structures and which would be best suited for the project I had discussed. After that, he asked me to write code to determine if two strings are an anagram. He wanted me to talk through the algorithm before I began coding on collabedit. Overall he was a very nice interviewer, seemed as though he wanted me to do well - was not trying to trick me at any point.
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