I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Mar 2010
Interview
Delivered my resume during a small career fair after completing a simple programming problem. Received an interview offer and met two interviewers for 45 minutes each. Questions about design, debugging, and large-scale problem solving. Included a hard distributed computing problem to see how you think about things. Talked a bit about what it's like to work at the company. Interviewers were friendly. Dress business casual. I received an offer within a week.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given two (huge) sets, what is an efficient way to find their intersection?
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