I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
3 phone / skype interviews.
the first was with HR. She asked to review the code and explain few things about the given code. The second was with a technical guy, he gave 3 questions. All questions were quite familiar from the Cracking Coding Interview book. The third interview was about the system design. The question was "how would you implement the ITunes". Here I was quite weak. The next day after the third interview I got a decline.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
given a method
private LinkedList doAction(List l1, List l2) {
LinkedList ret = new LinkedList();
for (int i = 0; i < l1.size(); i++) {
for (int j = 0; j < l2.size(); j++) {
if (l1.get(i) == (l2.get(j))) {
if (!ret.contains(l1.get(i))) {
ret.add(l1.get(i));
}
}
}
}
return ret;
}
questions:
* what does the method do
* what is bigO for the method
* how to improve the method
* how to test the method
Recruiter screen, online assessment, technical interviews, and behavioral rounds focused heavily on Amazon Leadership Principles. The process was structured, with a strong emphasis on problem-solving, coding skills, and examples demonstrating impact and ownership.
Recruiter screen, followed by an online coding assessment and then a technical phone interview. The final round was a virtual onsite loop with multiple interviews covering data structures, system design, debugging, and Amazon Leadership Principles. The technical questions were practical but time-constrained, and the behavioural questions required specific examples using the STAR format.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a scalable URL shortening service and explain how you would handle high read traffic, collisions, database schema, expiration, and basic monitoring.
That moment when the interviewer asked about finding indices in an array for a target sum was wild — I had just tackled something identical while prepping on PracHub. The interview included a technical round with another question about designing an in-memory LRU cache and a behavioral question about meeting tight deadlines. After a smooth discussion, I was told I'd received an offer, which I happily accepted. Overall, the process felt pretty straightforward and not overly challenging.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Given an array of integers return the indices of two numbers summing to a target