J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 1 semaine. J'ai passé un entretien chez Amazon en oct. 2024
Entretien
I am describing the Online Assessment.
2 coding challenges hosted on hackerrank.com. Given 1.5 hours to complete both problems. This process assesses your ability to solve a difficult brain teaser and then write code to execute your solution. Writing the code is the easy part; coming up with the solution is the hard part. Imagine if you were asked to write code to solve a Rubik's Cube without already knowing or being told the algorithm for solving a Rubik's Cube.
I've read other reviews of Amazon's Software Development Engineer interview process here on Glassdoor and it seems others got much easier questions than I did. Could be based on the seniority of the role applying for or could be some random factor involved.
After the 2 questions was a work simulation in which you read simulated emails from coworkers describing to you their requirements for new development projects. You're given a list of 5 or 6 technologies or next steps and asked to assign a ranking to each one based on how effective those technologies or next steps would be. For example, you're told you need to develop distributed storage of thumbnail images. How effective would cloud storage be for solving this requirement? How effective would elastic search be? Etc.
This portion of the interview is not timed.
The final portion of the online assessment is where you're shown 2 sentences describing different ideologies or behavioral traits and you must say whether one or the other Best Describes you or Better Describes you. This portion was also not timed. It took about 20 minutes to complete.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Given an array of integers, write code (you choose the language) that will return the minimum number of elements that must be changed such that every subarray of a given length will have the same sum.
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
J'ai postulé en ligne. J'ai passé un entretien chez Amazon (Santa Clara, CA) en juin 2026
Entretien
Recruiter reached out and set up an onsite loop after the initial steps. Four back to back rounds in one day. Two coding heavy rounds run by senior engineers, one round with the hiring manager, and one behavioral round with a bar raiser. Mix of leadership principles and data structures throughout. Heard back within a week.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Standard BFS grid problem. Given a grid, find the time for all cells to reach a target state where the spread happens one layer at a time.
How did you answer: Clarified the constraints, walked through the approach, then coded a clean BFS from all starting points at once. Tracked the number of layers until everything was covered.