I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (New York, NY) in Jul 2021
Interview
A recruiter reached out about a few opportunities. I was interested in one of the opportunities, so the recruiter set up an interview with the Research Lead.
I had an initial call with the recruiter, where he told me about the position and explained what the interview process would look like. Unfortunately, the actual interview was NOTHING like the recruited said. The interview was literally 60 minutes of behavioral questions, with no time left at the end for me to ask questions.
I received an email the next say stating that I didn't get the job and it was against Amazon policy to tell me why.
There are three rounds in total. The process begins with a coding round, followed by the main interview loop, where you will meet the team and discuss technical skills, experience, and fit.
First round is fun, second round, which is also the final round involved 5 sessions, with different focus. For some sessions, not be able to present my story completely, time was tight, and interviewers were rushing.
Thrilled to have accepted the offer — the process was tougher than I expected. The first round was primarily technical, where I tackled an A/B testing design question that required detailed metrics and sample size calculations. Later, I faced a SQL query challenge focused on tracking customer purchases over consecutive months. Funny enough, I had spent quite some time on PracHub digging into similar case studies, which really helped me approach these problems confidently. The final round included behavioral questions, and I felt well-prepared overall.