I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Amazon (London, England) in May 2024
Interview
I got referred by a friend for few roles in different times and finally got contacted by recruiter. Then had an online assessment which was on technical and leadership questions.
After passing them I had a phone call, it is weird that the question I got was kind of mix of 2 few questions to solve to come up with the right answer and also I have to say it was not from top Amazon questions, it was not typical leetcode question, but question that needs DS and Algo knowledge to solve. I could not finish the solution on time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Question that is not typical leetcode, but needs DS and algo knowledge.
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.