Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions

I applied online, and was contacted shortly afterward for a coding test. This was conducted on the site HackerRank. The questions were very easy, for example I had to implement a binary search in whichever language I chose. I was successful with the coding test, and invited interstate for in-person interviews. These interviews took place over a 4 hour period on one morning, 4 separate 1 hour interviews, each with a different interviewer. These interviewers asked a range of questions from technical questions about data structures and algorithms, to work experience questions (i.e. "have you ever been in a situation where X, and how did you deal with it"). They were deliberately vague, even when I asked clarifying questions. At one point I was asked "design a system that X", with no other prompting. I was quite unprepared for something this vague, and I struggled with exactly what I should do to "design" the system in that moment, even if the design of such a system was not very difficult. I would highly recommend preparing for a question such as this. Furthermore, they will ask you for stories about your career. A lot of them. I found myself struggling to remember enough unique situations where I'd encountered and solved the issues that they asked about. I prepared for this by coming up with stories, but I underestimated just how many of such questions they'd ask. I ended up repeating the same story to different interviewers on a number of occasions. After the interviews were over, I was contacted a number of weeks later informing me that I was not successful.

Two online coding assessments. First had logical and one coding. Second had two coding questions. Third was an onsite for me. Amazon has so many loopholes in its process. People who don't even know how to create a ppt got through! Am not saying this cos I didn't make it through the process but am definitely questioning the quality of those hired through a Skype round instead of the onsite!!