J'ai postulé via un recruteur. Le processus a pris 5 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Amazon en févr. 2014
Entretien
I was initially contacted by an HR recruiter, with whom I exchanged several emails and phone calls over the course of about a week. Following this, there was an online programming test and a call with the recruiter for the specific business unit I would be interviewing with. The programming test required identifying both the memory and time complexity of the implementation. There were two problems. I forget what they were exactly, but they were more complicated than fizzbuzz. This was followed by a technical phone screen that focused primarily on my work experience. Finally, I was invited to an all-day series of 5x 1-on-1 interviews. 2 of these had a very highly technical focus, centered on moderate-to-advanced (undergraduate, 3000 and 4000 level) CS algorithms and data structures. These required white-boarding actual code (as opposed to pseudo code). 2 others focused on mostly personality and team dynamics topics, and basic software development practices (discuss agile vs not, discuss TDD, communicating requirements, etc). The 5th interview was with HR and was simply a description of what would have come next in the process (offer, relocation details, salary and benefits, etc).
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Design a Least Recently Used caching system, with syntactically correct code, on a white board
J'ai postulé via une agence de recrutement. J'ai passé un entretien chez Amazon (Seattle, WA) en mai 2026
Entretien
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.
J'ai postulé via un recruteur. J'ai passé un entretien chez Amazon en févr. 2026
Entretien
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
Questions d'entretien [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
J'ai postulé via un recruteur. Le processus a pris 3 mois. J'ai passé un entretien chez Amazon (Bengaluru) en sept. 2025
Entretien
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.