J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 2 mois. J'ai passé un entretien chez Amazon (Cape Town) en mars 2020
Entretien
After applying via Amazon Careers website, a recruiter got in contact 7 days later. The phone interview was scheduled 4 weeks later. This interview entailed of a few questions based on the leadership principles and basic computer science fundamentals, and then a coding session.
Got feedback 2 days later with success to proceed to the Onsite interview.
The onsite interview was scheduled 4 weeks later. The onsite interview was actually conducted online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This interview consisted of 5 sessions (1 hour per session): 2 sessions based on leadership principles, 2 coding sessions and 1 session on system design.
The entire process was quite pleasant. The recruiter was very thorough in explaining the expectations for each phase of the interview process.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
1. Check if a binary tree is a BST
2. Check if a bracket expression is balanced
3. Tell me of a time where you did something completely out of your comfort zone.
Surprisingly easy — I expected tougher questions, but the coding round felt more like a warm-up. The main challenge was a DSA problem about counting islands in a 2D grid, which led to a discussion on DFS versus BFS and handling large grids. Funny enough, I had revisited that exact type of question while prepping on PracHub, which made me feel more confident. The interview wrapped up with a behavioral round, and I accepted an offer, but ultimately decided to decline it for another opportunity. Overall, it was a smooth experience.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Number of Islands — given a 2D grid of '1's (land) and '0's (water), count the number of connected islands. Walk through DFS vs BFS, and discuss how to avoid revisiting cells (in-place mutation vs visited set) and what changes if the grid is huge and must stream from disk.
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