I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jul 2024
Interview
I got a reach out from a recruiter for a position in special project. I was interviewed by a manager, a dev, and a bar raiser. Before the interview I specifically asked if there will be OOD questions, and I was told there will be none explicitly by the recruiter. I ended up with two OOD questions and I was completely blindsided.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
design a music playlist system to shuffle and loop songs.
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.