I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Bengaluru) in Feb 2025
Interview
1. OA- 2 custom sorting of pairs of vector based questions. medium and system design scenario based MCOs
2. phone screening round: Kahn/topological sorting and stream of characters type question.
Loop in rounds:
1. "Design package locker for Amazon delivery partner" was the only sentence, you are supposed to ask all clarifying questions.
it was LLD + DSA.
2. sort colors and first missing positive.
3. max height stack using cuboid + first multiple of a number which is made up of only 0s and 1s,ex: first multiple of 3 is 10.
4.system design: payment system for e commerce "place order" system.
5.Bar raiser: chess board low level design
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Prepare leadership principles well,
do neetcode, all the questions except max stack height using cuboid was from this list.
first multiple made of 0s and 1s is not in leetcode, thogh someone has asked it in discuss section.
There were in total 5 rounds (excluding BR), but I got rejected in 2nd Round.
First round was OA, there were 2 questions - 1 easy and 1 medium. Along with some behavioral questions (MCQs).
Round 1: DSA questions (2), both of medium difficulty.
Round 2: Was supposed to be an LLD round, but it didn't went well.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
In LLD round I was asked to design school management system. I listed down multiple services like course scheduling, events (exams, parent-teachers meet, co-curricular activities, accounts). After this the question was changed (we were already 20 min in the round).
Interviewer asked me if I know how e-mail systems works (like Gmail), tbh I didn't and neither was I prepared for it, so I answered that I don't have much idea about it just know that they use SMTP protocol.
Of course round went bad 'cause I wasn't prepared and I got rejected.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Nov 2024
Interview
First I received an online assessment. They presented 2 leetcode mediums that covered dynamic programming concepts. Next, it was a coding round (Data Structures and Algorithms) followed by a system design round. There was a huge delay from when I passed the online assessment and had my DSA round scheduled for some reason. The system design round was scheduled for one hour but for some reason the interviewer took 2? They seemed all over the place
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Coding round -> Graph problem that required BFS
System Design -> Design Pastebin