I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Reston, VA) in Nov 2024
Interview
Split between behavioral questions and technical questions. The behavioral questions were aimed at identifying which Amazon Leadership Principals you've demonstrated in your past experience. A good way to answer them is going through the principals, listing out experiences you've had with them, and then answering the question in the STAR format. For the technical problems, they were of medium difficulty. Not easy, but nothing crazy either.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Give a time when you demonstrated frugality in your role.
Interviewed for silicon team. Have only been asked about the domain specific knowledge in 1st round and system design in 2nd round and C coding in 3rd round.
The interviews were 50 mins each.
First round with hr screening - 2 leetcode questions then hr manager screening then the loop which consists of 4 interviews each an hour long. The 4 interview questions they asked where three medium leetcode questions. And one system design interview question about how to shadow deploy a test software to millions of users.
Recruiter reaches out after applying through Amazon careers, no referral. Had an initial OA, then after a month had four rounds in two days - three coding one system design. Each round had 30 min behavioral and 30 min coding.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions were mainly hashmap, sliding window and interval related.