I applied through college or university. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2013
Interview
Applied through umd career center. The interview is hard and they were not as friendly as I thought. If you made mistakes they try to push you and this also gave me a lot of pressure.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The first question is from google i think. They ask you to write an algorithm in order to figure out a kind of bottle will broken after being throwing from a certain floor. The second part was about basic algorithm but the lady had a strange accent and I have to keep asking her what she said. The second part was easy.
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