I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Amazon (New York, NY) in Jun 2025
Interview
OA done. possibly rejected. Refered by company employee.
90 mins OA for 2 coding questions. Finished first in 30 mins. Did not finish the second one. Amazon's OA is not most difficult one but very verbose. Description of question is very long and you cannot use just one stop classic algorithm to solve. I probably need nearly 100 lines of code to solve second one with binary search with proper search function design involving efficient checking mininum substring shared GCD > 1. Really verbose and a lot of effort.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q1. two employee handling warehouse question. if last shift is done by you, score + 1. very classic amazon OA
Q2. https://www.reddit.com/r/leetcode/comments/1cy9307/amazon_assement_test/
Interview by recuriter, Phone interview over Chime with one easy Leet code problem and 2 behavioral questions. Although the interviewer was very casual at the start of the conversation, it quickly changed into behavioral questions at the start.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Encoding optimization algorithm and talk about a project you did recently.
First round is just leet code coding which screens through AI before going into live coding. Pretty simple and straighforward. Not too tough. Recruiter walks through it pretty nicely. Not sure how many rounds there are exactly
After submitting my application for the Software Engineer position, I received an invitation to complete an automated Online Assessment (OA). The assessment consisted of standard coding challenges, primarily focusing on algorithmic and data structure problems. Unfortunately, a few days after submitting my solutions for the assessment, I received an email informing me that I would not be moving forward in the interview process and was rejected.