I applied through university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in Sept 2020
Interview
First there was screening test followed by interviews. Now there was some ambiquity in our interview process. Nothing about the rounds were clearly mentioned. Some people had only one round of interview while others were asked to give 2 inteviews on the same day. On certain parameters, they selected people from only one round while some from 2 rounds of interview. I gave 2 interviews.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
There is one man (named GG for great grandfather) who is throwing a party in which his entire family is coming. Every person in the party has to tell his straight path connection to GG at the reception. You need to write a code to inform that person about his junction point (if there is any) in the path till GG. That is, you need to tell him if he has any uncle or relative (cross branching).
It had 2 rounds, and each one had some behavioral questions as well as one technical question. The behavioral questions were about different group work situations that I had before, and I had to describe them. The technical questions were LeetCode medium.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe a situation when you had a conflict with your supervisor.
The role I was interviewed for is SDET. It was through our campus placements. There was an initial screening test, followed by 2 more online interview rounds. The screening round consisted of 7 chapters, like OOPS, Database, Linux, Computer Networks, Programming and so on.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The screening round was an online test for like 3 hours. It went well, and I was selected for that. But in the actual interview, I was initially asked about my projects and 2 DSA Questions. The first DSA question was a maximum subarray-based question, and the second question was a finding the shortest path in a graph-based question
The interview was heavily focused on GenAI and Amazon Leadership Principles. The Technical Manager did a deep dive into my approach to prompting LLMs and how I optimize workflows using them. In contrast, the SDE Engineer’s questions were more direct and strongly centered around Leadership Principles.
