I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Vancouver, BC) in Mar 2019
Interview
1st round relatively easy, 2nd round more challenging (on-site, close to the waterfront skytrain stn).
1st round was a online coding test for 90 min (2 questions with analysis), about easy-medium difficulty.
2nd interview was a 5-rounder lasting 5 hours with 1-hour lunch break. A LOT of behavioral questions, I mean A LOT. "Give an example where you.....". In later rounds I was getting numb answering these questions so I started to gaie answers like "I don't have such examples..." Algorithms Qs were around medium-difficult levels. I didn't prepare well so the outcome was expected.
One thing I noticed was almost all the interviewers were typing like crazy during the process. They were very good at multi-tasking though, because even with all the typing they were still following what I was talking about or writing on the white-board. So I guess they were probably super-busy or maybe had to do a lot of interviews...
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
All the behavioral questions you can or cannot think of.
It started with an OA, and then after a few weeks, I got invited to four rounds of interviews: technical and behavioral at 3 of the 4, and behavioral only at one.
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Calgary, AB) in Jun 2026
Interview
Online Assessment is the first step in the process. I didn’t have an HR phone screening and went straight to the OA after applying. It was sent to me about a week after I submitted my application.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The first question is LeetCode style algorithms question, and the second question gives a full stack repo (choice of Java, NodeJS, or Django) and asks to solve a backend issue which is causing a bug in the frontend. Unit tests must pass to pass the second question. You can run both backend/frontend indivdually or together
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Santa Clara, CA) in Jun 2026
Interview
Recruiter reached out and set up an onsite loop after the initial steps. Four back to back rounds in one day. Two coding heavy rounds run by senior engineers, one round with the hiring manager, and one behavioral round with a bar raiser. Mix of leadership principles and data structures throughout. Heard back within a week.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Standard BFS grid problem. Given a grid, find the time for all cells to reach a target state where the spread happens one layer at a time.
How did you answer: Clarified the constraints, walked through the approach, then coded a clean BFS from all starting points at once. Tracked the number of layers until everything was covered.