The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2011
Interview
I went to school's career fair where amazon held interviews. The whole interview took 90 minutes with 2 interviewers. The questions are pretty straightforward. The interviewers are quite nice and professional. I was given a lot of hints, but I misunderstood one of the hints and screwed up that question.
Question: what is hashtable? what is BST? compare them
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is Hashtable? What is BST? How to avoid collision in hashing? Compare these two.
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