I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (New York, NY) in Mar 2026
Interview
I felt the interviewer was quite biased. When he asked me about the biggest concern with AI coding tools, I answered from the perspective of their impact on engineers. He immediately redirected the conversation and asked, “Do you know what hallucination is?” Honestly, I almost laughed because it felt very dismissive and condescending.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The coding question was very difficult. The interviewer, who was Indian, gave me what was clearly a hard-level problem — Snakes and Ladders. To be honest, I knew it should be solved with BFS, but as an international student, I had never played this game before, so I spent quite a lot of time just understanding the rules and problem setup.
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.