I applied through a recruiter. The process took 8 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Oct 2024
Interview
1 OA with hard questions, after passing that, 4 final rounds of 1 hour each were scheduled. 2 coding, 1 OOD and 1 system design with first 15-20 minutes for leadership principles.
The interviewers were not prepared for a different solution in the coding rounds. Even though I gave a working solution, they were not satisfied because my solution did not match their answer key. This interview experience hurt very bad since I knew my answers were correct (checked after the interview) and even though I tried explaining my approach, they were not agreeing to why it would work. System design was from grokking and it went okay.
They put a lot of weightage to the leadership principles, trying to get all the signals that they want. Have multiple stories for each LP because they don't tolerate repetition.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time you went above and beyond for a customer.
Coding questions were 1 graph based, 1 was DP which could also be solved recursively.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (London, England) in May 2024
Interview
First stage was initial application on their portal. Then I was send a 3 hour take home test that was to be completed on hackerRank platform. They give a demo test to get familiar with the platform. I recommend doing a load of hacker rank problems before applying.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Two 90 Minutes technical question. Most of them relating to data structures and algorithms. Can be completed in any programming languages.
I reached just first test challenge. Got the link with test on HackerRank. There were 2 problems to solve. I had 1.5 hours for that. The problems were medium-high level, but not extremely difficult.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
One probrem was about the sliding window teqnique, the second one was about string lexicographic order.