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.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2016
Interview
The interview process is good overall. However, you must finish 2 online assignment and pass 2 of them then you can get this interview. For this interview, I went to Seattle to join a group interview. The recruiter will divide interviewee into teams and each team will have 2 or 3 people. According to the Nondisclosure Agreement, I will not say the question itself. But it is a very interesting interview that I can chat with proctors who are real engineers from different team. By the way, it was a great trip to Seattle and Amazon will reimburse for the expenditure.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
It is a group interview but I can tell the question.
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
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.