I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Toronto, ON) in Apr 2022
Interview
Phone Interview with Recruiter. Asked about background. I was told I had to have some development and scripting background
Technical Call with SSE. Tell me about yourself, 2 coding questions and 3 shell script questions
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Find first and last positions of an element in a sorted array
Largest Sum Contiguous Subarray
List all files in directory
Find files with a size larger than 1MB and delete them with user intervention
Find N files with the word 'Apple'
I applied online. The process took 4 days. I interviewed at Amazon in Oct 2021
Interview
First round: Introduce yourself then starts with one reallity question about retrieving data from log file, on pseudocode, two interviewers. Taking about an hour.
You can ask for some details about this question, and interviewer will give a little hint.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Get the most frequently requests from "Tina" (a user)
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Amazon in Jun 2021
Interview
Having your resume approved for the interview is difficult enough, possibly because of the number of applications they receive. After passing that, I had a technical interview with my hiring manager, then a HR talk (including some interview tips!), and then a round of 4 technical interviews in 2 days (individually with the same hiring manager and 3 other people).
The technical interviews followed the same script: introduction, behavioral questions (all based on Amazon's leadership principles), code challenge (either algorithm/data structure related or a design discussion), moment for questions. The interviews always started and ended at the time we had agreed on.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Example of behavioral question: tell me about something you have learnt in your job.
Example of code challenge question: given an array of ordered strings (with some empty strings in the middle), return the index of a given string (which may or may not actually be present in the array).
Usually, the questiosn aren't too difficult (no smart gotchas), but they expect you to present a very structured answer (they want to know about the outcome of the situation you presented in the behavioral questions, or some discussion about the code you wrote - time complexity, space complexity, how to improve your code, maintainability, optimizations, tests, limitations, etc.).
