I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Mar 2013
Interview
I was contacted by Amazon's recruiter. After one phone interview, I had an on-site interview at Seattle, WA. The whole process was stressful, even the lunch was an interview: I picked a very noisy place and yelled for one hour to make the hiring manager to hear me. There were two technical interviews before lunch and two after.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Generate all valid n pairs of parenthesis, i.e. ( ( ) ( ) ) is valid 3 pairs, ) ( ) ( is not valid.
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