J'ai postulé via un recruteur. Le processus a pris 3 mois. J'ai passé un entretien chez Amazon (Dublin, Dublin) en févr. 2015
Entretien
I was contacted by recruiter through my LinkedIn account.
First I got a email with test and I had a 24 hours to solve it. It could be programmed in your prefered language.
Second one - phone interview with 2 guys from Amazon (SW engineers):
They started the interview with question like, what is different between hashmap and binary tree, what is better and why etc.
Then coding issue - but i don't remember it well, but not so difficult.
On-site - Dublin:
6 hour and each hour with different interviewer -
3 technical and 3 about your weakness and strongpoint, your big challenge, what did you do if you had a problem with your boss etc.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Email test:
*The problem:*
A logfile contains newline-terminated, space-separated text formatted like:
<unix_timestamp> <hostname> <hostname>
Example:
1366815793 quark garak
1366815795 brunt quark
1366815811 lilac garak
Each line represents connection from a host (left) to another host (right) at a given time. The lines are *roughly* sorted by timestamp. They might be out of order by a maximum of 5 minutes.
*Your task:* Implement a tool that parses such log files. The tool should both parse previously written log files by filename, or read from the standard input a stream of lines in the previously defined format.
The script will output:
* a list of hostnames that connected to a given (configurable) host
during the last hour
* a list of hostnames that received connections from a given
(configurable) host during the last hour
* the hostname that generated most connections in the last hour
* the hostname that received most connections in the last hour
Expect the number of loglines and hostnames to be very high. Consider implementing a CPU and memory-efficient solution.
On-site:
- How would you implement T9 ?
- You have a e-shop and you must implement the shop card. The e-shop has some bonuses that if you buy for example 3 same stuff one is free, if you buy this stuff there is 25% free etc.
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.