I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2015
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The total process of Amazon is really slow....I went through employee referral, OA and final onsite these three phases. Now I will talk about onsite experience:
There are four round interviews for onsite interview. Every round begins with some general resume questions such as "tell me about your most proud project/activity" etc. Then the interview is followed by one or two algorithm question:
Round one: 1. compare two trees return if they are equal; 2. merge sort(follow up: how about have two large files with each contains a bunch of number)
Round two: 1. max subarray sum(follow up: can you do that without array); 2.zigzag travel of a tree
Round three:1. given an integer, start from the end put a comma after first three digits, and for the rest, put a comma after every two digits, return final string; 2. I can't remember very clearly about this round, but I do remember it's a dfs or bfs search for a maze with additional constraints such as "each time I can only go forward and turn right"
Round four: implement the checkin and checkout interface, I think this problem has been mentioned in previous reviews
Generally, Amazon onsite is not hard but I still don't get offer, maybe I performed badly for behavior questions. As for algorithm, it's just about searching, sorting and a little dynamic programming. As for data structure, I heard that they prefer array and string than tree.
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General resume questions and basic algorithm(Leetcode can be helpful)
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.
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (São Paulo, São Paulo) in Jun 2026
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Empresa extremamente clara sobre o que é pedido na entrevista e isso me mostra a seriedade. Minha experiencia foi positiva e tente se atentar a resolver o problema e não somente decorar padrões do leetcode.
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Perguntas em ingles que envolve o STAR e testes técnicos
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Calgary, AB) in Jun 2026
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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.
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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