I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (São Paulo, São Paulo) in Apr 2019
Interview
The best interview process I have ever participated! Very fast and organized. I applied through Amazon's database and got contacted by a recruiter one month later. They sent to me a link to some algorithmic questions which were Leetcode medium/hard, I had 90min to solve 2 of those questions.
After this test I got a phone interview that was scheduled really efficiently, first there was a classical programming interview question and after one Leadership Principle question. The interviewer decided by himself to keep talking to me after the time was over and he asked about several past projects.
The onsite step was great, travel was arranged really fast! I can't say the questions but I can say the topics they covered: first interview was a graph question, second was a divide and conquer algorithm, third was an API design question and the fourth was on Maps and Queues. Every interview had questions on past experiences and Amazon Leadership Principles. The next day I got a call from the recruiter with an offer conditional to background check.
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.