I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Bengaluru) in Jun 2011
Interview
They called me to come to their office on Sunday and conducted a written test with two questions (one design question and one coding question). 1) Design movie reservation system with ER diagram (similar to bookmyshow.com for a multiplex theater). 2) Write a code/logic to find the longest path in a cyclic graph. (The question was wrong, looks like they just copy-pasted it from some web site - i've video proof, if u don't believe me)
The scheduling and interview management was very very bad. There was around 15 candidates. Few candidates came by reference and got more priority for the F2F. Few of them couldn't wait for long time and they left in the middle by rescheduling their F2F. I went at 9:15am and got the F2F at 3:00pm (Written was for 90 minutes).
I was so hungry, but they didn't let me go out. After some time they arranged a lunch. Had lunch in their cafeteria (some maintenance was going on and finally I got head-ache)
After that, one guy came and took me to his desk for the next round. He asked a question about BST. I know very well about the answer but I was not able to think anything at that time. Question was to find the depth of the binary tree. A 2nd year college student can answer this question. I expected some tough question. I couldn't have answered even if the question was "whats 2^5"; (I think no one can think when they're irritated)
I'm not even interested to go back and ask for the result. I'm happy with my current job. Good bye Amazon.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Design movie ticket booking system (for multiplex theater) with ER diagram. Also give some future extensions
Write algorithm/code to find longest path between any two cities. 4X4 matrix was given. If there is no connectivity between two cities then the distance between them was given as -1. Its cyclic graph.
I applied through a staffing agency. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in May 2026
Interview
There were a total of 2 rounds:
The first round was with an SDE II on Data Structures/Algo - Leet code questions mainly
The second rounds was with an SDM Behavioral/System Design - Leadership principles and past work experience impact.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon in Feb 2026
Interview
Recruiter explicitly mentioned that the Technical Phone Screen interview did not contain any Behavioral question but the interviewer definitely asked 3 behavioral questions.
The coding problem was utterly garbage, it was a pretty trivial problem that anyone that knows DFS would be able to solve. That is not appropriate for a SDE 2 role. Not even useful to demonstrate candidate skills
PS: They care a lot more about what you've accomplished than whatever you can accomplish based on your skills
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Tell me about a time when you had to meet a tight deadline
2. Tell me about a time when you had to do more than what you were required to do
3. Tell me about a time where you made a significant impact on a customer
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Bengaluru) in Sept 2025
Interview
5 rounds of interviews
1. OA (2 Medium Hard Questions along with some Work Related Assessment which tested design related concepts)
2. HLD
3. DSA
4. LLD
5. Bar Raiser
Technically, the questions were of medium difficulty and with good polish, you should be able to solve these questions. The main challenge in Amazon is of the Leadership Principles which involve citing real work experience in the STAR format.