I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon in Nov 2023
Interview
First round was online assesment on hacker rank which consisted of 2 questions. Next was full loop. This is for L5 position. Loop had lots of behavioral questions based on leaderhip principle and leetcode medium and hard questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Trapping rain water
2. given an array of song names, create a random songs playlist.
3. String A and B is given. Find all the indices from A where B is a anagram match
4. design of publisher/ subscriber notification system
Interviewed for silicon team. Have only been asked about the domain specific knowledge in 1st round and system design in 2nd round and C coding in 3rd round.
The interviews were 50 mins each.
First round with hr screening - 2 leetcode questions then hr manager screening then the loop which consists of 4 interviews each an hour long. The 4 interview questions they asked where three medium leetcode questions. And one system design interview question about how to shadow deploy a test software to millions of users.
Recruiter reaches out after applying through Amazon careers, no referral. Had an initial OA, then after a month had four rounds in two days - three coding one system design. Each round had 30 min behavioral and 30 min coding.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions were mainly hashmap, sliding window and interval related.