I applied through a recruiter. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Dec 2013
Interview
Applied online and was contacted by their recruiter. 2 times phone interviews then on-site interview. I met 5 members on the on-site interview. Whole interview process was just usual but it seemed no one spent their time on reading my resume before they come. all the interview questions was focused on programming questions. I found that most of people here is very java person. And felt like understanding the fundamentals is treated lesser important than knowing practical java APIs to use. Someone also mentioned that speed of writing code is very important here.
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
How would you handle if there's conflict with your manager or co-worker? What would you do your manager is asking something that you don't think very right? Are you comfortable being called at mid-night due to an urgent service issue?
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