I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Mar 2024
Interview
I was screened by a recruiter, then asked to take a software engineering test. The test was difficult and I did not pass. There were two questions on the test, in order to pass you must get both correct.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What experience do you have in software engineering?
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.
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.
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.