I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Nov 2024
Interview
a meeting to introduce you to what you would expect during the interviews will be held approximately 1 week before the actual interviews.
3 back to back interviews that follows the guide sent to you by email the first half of each interview would be about amazon principles and how you acted in certain situations and the second half covers problem solving, data structures and algorithms and fundamental computer science knowledge.
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Describe a situation where you exceeded expectations
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon in Feb 2025
Interview
I did the OA part 1, there will be practical test before real start. The you have 70 min to complete two coding assessments. You don't need to turn on your laptop camera.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Coding Problem 1: Minimum Starting Health Calculation
Problem Statement: Determine the minimum starting health required for a player to win the game. Given an array of enemy attack powers (power) and an armor value (armor), the player takes damage in each round, but the armor can negate the highest attack once.Coding Problem 2: Optimal Warehouse Placement
Problem Statement: Given an array centers representing the positions of distribution centers, determine the optimal placement of two warehouses such that the sum of distances from each distribution center to its nearest warehouse is minimized.
Invited for a 4-hr online assessment. After submitting that, got invited for 3 45-min interviews. First was a coding round, 2nd interviewer didn't join the call and this got rescheduled(asked LLD question) and the 3rd one was behavioral.
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Question 1
Behavioral - Amazon Leadership principles
Coding - LeetCode hard
System design - Amazon locker design