J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 3 mois. J'ai passé un entretien chez Amazon (Seattle, WA)
Entretien
For me the process took 9 months or more. I pushed back my online assessment because I wanted to study very well. I passed the online assessment as well as the phone interview. I got an onsite interview in Seattle. I did well in the interview. However, I still didn't get an offer. They gave me a stranger reason, your level is an SDE2, but you didn't quite fullfil that even though you did well on the questions. I was like, I can go for an SDE1, but they were set on not giving me an offer. To be honest, I don't work with people who don't want to work with me, so it's all good. One of the interviews was very robotic and didn't really interact nicely. I'm kind of surprised that someone with mediocre communication skills is assessing a candidate. Whatever. It's all good in the end. Something much better is coming my way.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Some relatively simple data structures related questions, and another one was related to probability. another one related to system design
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.
J'ai postulé en ligne. J'ai passé un entretien chez Amazon (Calgary, AB) en juin 2026
Entretien
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.
Questions d'entretien [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
J'ai postulé en ligne. J'ai passé un entretien chez Amazon (Santa Clara, CA) en juin 2026
Entretien
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.
Questions d'entretien [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.