I applied online. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Montreal, QC) in Apr 2025
Interview
the interview process was long and excruciating. One of 2 coding questions had a mistake in it. There were 2 coding questions and a lot of behavioral questions, overall took me 3 hours to complete that.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
find the minimal number of prefix reductions by one to have all 0s in your list
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.
Recruiter reaches out after applying through Amazon careers, no referral. Had an initial OA, then after a month had four rounds in two days - three coding one system design. Each round had 30 min behavioral and 30 min coding.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions were mainly hashmap, sliding window and interval related.