I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon in Sep 2024
Interview
Introductions, after that a discussion of my experience, then two data structures and algorithms problems, and finally, about ten minutes in which they asked me about experiences related to Leadership Principles.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time when you showed ownership of a project and how it turned out.
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.