I applied online. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Sunnyvale, CA) in Dec 2015
Interview
I have an one hour phone interview yesterday. The first 30 mins, we mainly to talked about my project, how is the database design. There is only one coding question at the last 30 mins. The question is:
There are many conference room at Amazon, your manager wants you to book a conference room for a meeting. The number of people and time is given. Please return a list of rooms which are available at that time and have enough capacity.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There are many conference room at Amazon, your manager want you to book a conference room for a meeting. The number of people and time is given. Please return a list of rooms which are available at that time and have enough capacity.
Recruiter screen, followed by an online coding assessment and then a technical phone interview. The final round was a virtual onsite loop with multiple interviews covering data structures, system design, debugging, and Amazon Leadership Principles. The technical questions were practical but time-constrained, and the behavioural questions required specific examples using the STAR format.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a scalable URL shortening service and explain how you would handle high read traffic, collisions, database schema, expiration, and basic monitoring.
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.