I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Apr 2011
Interview
The recruiter contacted me in mid-February, and scheduled phone interviews in mid-March. Phone screenings went well, and they flew me to Seattle for on-site interview in April. I met 3 engineers, 2 managers and 1 recruiter in one day, and even though I feel it works well, I get rejected in one week.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Design an algorithm to tell how many shapes in the given bitmap image. Shape is defined as all the adjacency true bits.
For example, if the input looks like this, the answer is 4.
00001
11000
01101
10001
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