I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Boston, MA) in Feb 2019
Interview
Started with email from Amazon recruiter. Submitted resume, got invited to online assessment. I thought I screwed up 2nd question (shortest path through 2D maze), but got invited to onsite. 1 hour meet the team at 8am, 4-50 minute interviews back to back. Each interview asked some behavioral questions, the 3 had coding exercises and 1 had system design. I think I did well with experience, leadership, and system design - but struggeled with coding. And two of the three were pretty easy questions I think is psyched myself out before the interview and that didn’t help. I tried to come with optimal solution right away rather thank work through simpler solution and wait for follow ups.
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