I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Tempe, AZ) in Nov 2019
Interview
The process consisted of 3 OA's
OA1 - Debugging
OA2 - Coding
OA3 - Workplace Simulation
I passed all the 3 OA's they called me for the interview. It was the final interview.
Amazon focuses a lot on Leadership Principles. It is quite important to prepare well.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Tell me about a situation where you think your team member did not work well
2. Tell me about a situation where you had very little knowledge about what you were using.
3. Tell me about a situation where you had a deadline and you were sure that you would not
finish things before the deadline.
4. Tell me about a situation where you made a mistake and very soon realized it.
Priority Queue, hashmap, LinkedList, arrays
Coding 1 questions
1. Encoding and decoding the strings
aaaabbbbbccc---a4b5c3 and the reverse
a12b5c3 - aaaaaaaaaaaabbbbbccc
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Amazon in Feb 2021
Interview
I was asked questions on previous projects, then was asked to complete a coding problem (leetcode easy/medium). The interviewer was nice and tried to give hints when I was stuck.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Name an instance where you worked on something outside of your responsibility for a project.
It was a nice experience, although I failed to answer the algorithm, the interviewer explained the solution to me in the end, and he was nice in general, although questions were hard