I applied online. The process took 8 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Aug 2024
Interview
I had a tremendous amount of runaround and poor communication, the interview process got reset twice due to some kind of clerical error.
Most of the interviews were just fine but the system design with the HM felt pretty hostile and the interviewer did not seem to have thought about the domain elements of the problem at all.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Given a 1D height map of a terrain slice, calculate the water level at each position if it were full of water.
That moment when the interviewer asked about finding indices in an array for a target sum was wild — I had just tackled something identical while prepping on PracHub. The interview included a technical round with another question about designing an in-memory LRU cache and a behavioral question about meeting tight deadlines. After a smooth discussion, I was told I'd received an offer, which I happily accepted. Overall, the process felt pretty straightforward and not overly challenging.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Given an array of integers return the indices of two numbers summing to a target
Interviewed for silicon team. Have only been asked about the domain specific knowledge in 1st round and system design in 2nd round and C coding in 3rd round.
The interviews were 50 mins each.
First round with hr screening - 2 leetcode questions then hr manager screening then the loop which consists of 4 interviews each an hour long. The 4 interview questions they asked where three medium leetcode questions. And one system design interview question about how to shadow deploy a test software to millions of users.