I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Toronto, ON) in Apr 2024
Interview
Good, long but straightforward. Multiple stages, you can prepare for this online and from other sources. They are on time and very understanding. Know your design patterns and algorithms, and know how to communicate to amazons standards.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
"Given an array of integers, return the indices of the two numbers that add up to a specific target."
For example, given nums = [2, 7, 11, 15] and target = 9, since nums[0] + nums[1] = 2 + 7 = 9, return [0, 1].
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.