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I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in Jul 2016
Interview
Amazon came to our campus for recruitment this July.
First round was online test for about 1hr. The questions were damn easy. It was like cake walk.
Second round, we had paper coding. Questions were asked from data structures.
Then we had 2 Technical face-to-face interview and 1 HR round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Second round, paper coding questions were...
1. Find the common leaf node that is common for two binary tree.
2. Given a 2D array of 1's and 0's convert all the cells of row and column into 1's whose particular cell is 1.
Technical round:
Optimize the solution provided in the second round.
Questions from almost all data structures like stack, queues, trees, trie, sorting, searching etc,
Recruiter screen, online assessment, technical interviews, and behavioral rounds focused heavily on Amazon Leadership Principles. The process was structured, with a strong emphasis on problem-solving, coding skills, and examples demonstrating impact and ownership.
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.
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