I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (New York, NY) in Feb 2019
Interview
Rounds 1 and 2 were pretty smooth as they were Online Assessments. The nice thing about these 2 rounds was that candidates were given a one-week window by when they were supposed to complete the assessments, which meant the deadline for completion was more relaxed. Round 1 consisted of debugging 7 programs in 20 minutes and solving 24 Logic and Reasoning questions in 35 minutes. Round 2 consisted of solving 2 programming questions in 70 minutes. The final hurdle was the Virtual Interview round which is said to last for 45 minutes. I was asked a tree-based path sum question that although at first I suggested a naive approach which was quickly shot down, I came up with a valid workaround for it that even my interviewer seemed to like. I was asked about a few edges cases which I incorporated into my solution and once my interviewer was satisfied, I was asked to put the algorithm into code. I had the algorithm coded as a function within 5-10 minutes. My interviewer, despite conceding that my implementation was a correct interpretation of the suggested algorithm, went on to point out certain redundancies in my code with unnecessary if-blocks. On agreeing with him and getting rid of them, he was satisfied. However, by this time, I was aware that the interview had gone overtime and he just asked me if I had any questions for him. Despite getting the solution and 'up to the standards' of my interviewer, I received a swift rejection email within 24 hours. On asking a few of my peers ow their interviews went, I was shocked to know that some of them were asked ridiculously easy questions like printing out a multiplication table or printing out all odd numbers less than some x. The serious irregularity of the interview process and inconsistent difficulty level was a huge disappointment from a company of Amazon's stature.
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Question 1
Given a binary tree, print the maximum path sum from one leaf node to another leaf node.
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
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Santa Clara, CA) in Jun 2026
Interview
Recruiter reached out and set up an onsite loop after the initial steps. Four back to back rounds in one day. Two coding heavy rounds run by senior engineers, one round with the hiring manager, and one behavioral round with a bar raiser. Mix of leadership principles and data structures throughout. Heard back within a week.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Standard BFS grid problem. Given a grid, find the time for all cells to reach a target state where the spread happens one layer at a time.
How did you answer: Clarified the constraints, walked through the approach, then coded a clean BFS from all starting points at once. Tracked the number of layers until everything was covered.