J'ai postulé via un recruteur. J'ai passé un entretien chez Amazon
Entretien
Some recruiters are rude and will ghost you.
Recruiters are trying to maximize the number of people that get hired at Amazon. And that makes perfect sense. But this means once a candidate fails an onsite interview or phone screen a recruiter may never spend any time following up. It would be respectful if they at least sent an automated email saying you have been rejected. Being ghosted and left in the dark is really cold. Can't they just send an automated email to candidates that aren't hired?
I looked at the Amazon Leadership Principles. One section named "Earn Trust" says that "Leaders ... treat others respectfully". My suggestion to Amazon HR is to practice what you preach and start respecting candidates even if they don't get hired. Teach your recruiters to send a rejection email or have the software engineers write a program to send an automated email.
I'm not alone in my ghosting experience. A web search for "amazon interview ghosted" will return numerous results. Some people will say "grow up and move on". Well let's see how you feel when someone treats you that way.
Surprisingly easy — I expected tougher questions, but the coding round felt more like a warm-up. The main challenge was a DSA problem about counting islands in a 2D grid, which led to a discussion on DFS versus BFS and handling large grids. Funny enough, I had revisited that exact type of question while prepping on PracHub, which made me feel more confident. The interview wrapped up with a behavioral round, and I accepted an offer, but ultimately decided to decline it for another opportunity. Overall, it was a smooth experience.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Number of Islands — given a 2D grid of '1's (land) and '0's (water), count the number of connected islands. Walk through DFS vs BFS, and discuss how to avoid revisiting cells (in-place mutation vs visited set) and what changes if the grid is huge and must stream from disk.
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.
J'ai postulé en ligne. J'ai passé un entretien chez Amazon (Calgary, AB) en juin 2026
Entretien
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.
Questions d'entretien [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