Five hours interview. Four interviewer all come from the same group. Each of them charge one round. There will have two questions each round, the first one is simple and the next one will be improve/refine the problem before. I believe if you are a bachelor always work with normal algorithms and data structures you will feel quite comfortable with this kind of interview. Graduate student is not necessary in this position. They only focus on your basic capability. I am graduate student and the intervire shcedule is not a good time for me. I perpare two days for this interview after my 3 final projects, I meet a issue when I hit the third round and ask for a hint, so i think I am not the perfect candidate in that group. I found that when they ask me to talk about my projrcts I feel that they are not that kind of "research guys". So again I think they are placing the emphasis on the basic capability...
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 (Calgary, AB) in Jun 2026
Interview
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.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
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
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Santa Clara, CA) in Jun 2026
Interview
Recruiter reached out and set up an onsite loop after the initial steps. Four back to back rounds in one day. Two coding heavy rounds run by senior engineers, one round with the hiring manager, and one behavioral round with a bar raiser. Mix of leadership principles and data structures throughout. Heard back within a week.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Standard BFS grid problem. Given a grid, find the time for all cells to reach a target state where the spread happens one layer at a time.
How did you answer: Clarified the constraints, walked through the approach, then coded a clean BFS from all starting points at once. Tracked the number of layers until everything was covered.