I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2014
Interview
It was pretty straightforward, in my case. An online assessment that involved critical reading, math as well as logic problems (plain standardized testing), a coding portion that was pretty straightforward, and then I got the opportunity to fly up to Seattle. At the on-site interview, we had 4 straight rounds, each about 45 minutes long, of one-on-one interviewing. They covered what I thought were standard topics, such as Big O, sorting, data structures, etc. There were design as well as code-oriented problems, all of them definitely study-able. Then a few weeks later, they emailed me with the offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Big O - Best/Worst-Case Runtimes, Space, etc. for operations of basic data structures, like Maps, Lists, Trees.
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