I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Los Angeles, CA) in Dec 2024
Interview
I had a call with a recruiter, then an online Assessment, and then a final interview, which included both a behavioral portion and a technical portion, each about 30 minutes long. The technical portion was just a single leetcode easy question and you go over your solution and try to optimize it.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time when you did did something under pressure
It had 2 rounds, and each one had some behavioral questions as well as one technical question. The behavioral questions were about different group work situations that I had before, and I had to describe them. The technical questions were LeetCode medium.
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Question 1
Describe a situation when you had a conflict with your supervisor.
The role I was interviewed for is SDET. It was through our campus placements. There was an initial screening test, followed by 2 more online interview rounds. The screening round consisted of 7 chapters, like OOPS, Database, Linux, Computer Networks, Programming and so on.
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Question 1
The screening round was an online test for like 3 hours. It went well, and I was selected for that. But in the actual interview, I was initially asked about my projects and 2 DSA Questions. The first DSA question was a maximum subarray-based question, and the second question was a finding the shortest path in a graph-based question
The interview was heavily focused on GenAI and Amazon Leadership Principles. The Technical Manager did a deep dive into my approach to prompting LLMs and how I optimize workflows using them. In contrast, the SDE Engineer’s questions were more direct and strongly centered around Leadership Principles.
