I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Istambul) in Nov 2024
Interview
3 round loop interview with two software engineers and one technical product manager.
Loop process was made up of behavioral questions for confirmation of alignment with Amazon 16 Leadership Principles and technical coding challenges.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time when you had to validate an assumption and align with a director or senior leader’s approach, even though it might have been different from your initial thinking.
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.