I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (New York, NY) in Aug 2020
Interview
AWS recruiter reached out 7 days after applying to set up an introductory call which was followed up with a HackerRank assessment shortly thereafter (finished first question, but not second). Moved onto a phone screen which I did not pass.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
HackerRank assessment included a variation of Leetcode's Shortest Path to Get Food problem
The interview process was smooth, and the interviewer was professional and friendly. It was online and took about 35 minutes. The recruiter will give you some guidelines on how to prepare.
Only had first round, a recruiter reached out to me as I had applied for another role. the total time to interview was 2 weeks. One recruiter interview and then with the hiring manager
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Low level system design about designing a ranking system based on the number of sales of a product as well as taking into consideration the time complexity. had to do some in O(logn)
HR call followed by a 1-hour coding interview with a team member. Then, a loop consisting of 5 rounds: 2 LeetCode-style coding interviews, 2 system design interviews, and 1 behavioral interview
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
LeetCode questions are at the easy/medium level. System design is a regular task about designing ML algorithms
