I applied through college or university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon in Nov 2010
Interview
I had a number of six interviews each one with a different group of technical people. Each group had its own area of expertise so the questions referred to OOP, algorithm complexities (sorting, data structure operations), data structures (hash tables, lists, arrays, binary trees) etc.
The people I had the interview with were well prepared so it was a pleasure to have a conversation with them. They also presented me what they were working on (the web services behind amazon.com).
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
How would you sort a 32 GB file with a number on each line.
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