I was deeply unimpressed by Amazon's recruitment process. I sent a couple of resumes multiple times. If feels like when you submit an application on their job board, they just save your email address in their database. They don't bother looking at your resume or anything else you put down. The impression I got was that when they are ready to hire they just send a mass email to every email they stored. I got some emails asking me for my resume for positions that I neither applied for nor am qualified for. I don't get why I need to give them my resume so many times, when I have already sent it to them multiple times. They are a tech company. They should have a better process. Part of the problem was that on some of their applications the desired experience was somewhat ambiguous, but they should have a system in place to navigate applicants to better fitting roles (Especially with the number of positions that are open). The overall impression I got was that their hiring department (or Company Culture) is incompetent, they do the shotgun approach when it comes to hiring, and the way the handle job applications is pretty awful. It feels like I have been responding to a lot of spam.
The interview process was straightforward with no surprises — three coding rounds (LeetCode medium difficulty), a system design round, and a cultural fit conversation. The interviewers were pleasant and the overall atmosphere was positive.
That said, it's worth noting that this format feels dated. Even before the rise of AI, LeetCode-style assessments were a questionable proxy for real-world engineering ability and cultural fit. In today's environment, where AI can solve most of these problems instantly, continuing to use this framework raises the question of what signal it's actually measuring.
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For coding it was ask very similar to number of islands (2D grid search) with a twist.
Good interview process overall. The questions were mostly focused on general software engineering knowledge, with a strong emphasis on AI concepts. The interviewers were professional, and the process was well organized.
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System design and a lot of questions “imagine the situation”
Leet code question medium to gard then they snack you with a web app that you have to debug with a Very limited ai assistant that won't give you the answer but will read the files and tell you what they do
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Leet code and assisted debugging and 15 pillar of Amazon leadership questions