I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jul 2013
Interview
I applied online and emailed a manager contact listed in one of the online postings. I had a brief email conversation with the manager and he setup a phone screen for me with another manager on a different team. I had two phone screen interviews about a week apart. Each phone screen lasted around 60 minutes and required me to write code into a web-browser for the interviewer to view. A week or more after the final phone screen, an in-house interview was scheduled. The in-house interview took almost all day and consisted of five hour long interviews with different engineers asking coding questions and a one hour lunch discussion with the hiring manager.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a system to store and vend customer preferences to the retail website.
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.
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Calgary, AB) in Jun 2026
Interview
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.
Interview questions [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