I applied through university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in Nov 2010
Interview
Short easy coding question on pen and paper at their booth during my college's career fair + submission of resume. An email came about a week later, with instructions to fill up an online form at their site and set up an interview date and time. Actual interview was for one and a half hours with two 45 minutes interview with two different interviewers. Got an offer from them about 2 weeks later.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a node in a directed graph, write a function that determines if there is a cycle in the graph.
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon in Jan 2026
Interview
system design and leetcode style question. It told me to design a system and walk through how everybody would be using it, what kinds of implementation it would need. As for the leetcode it combined a lot of leetcode problems together into one for an product recommendation system.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
LP's and behaviorals and just normal questions about projects
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (San Diego, CA) in Jan 2026
Interview
2 1hour rounds back to back. Both rounds start with a short conversation about myself and the amazon leadership principals then go into a leetcode medium style problem. The problems were on data structures and algorithms, mine specifically focused on graphs and graph traversals
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Question 1
Tell me about a time things didn't go your way and what did you do
online coding assesment, then 1 interview. first half of the interview was technical, second half behavioral. I was interviewed by a current swe at amazon, the behaviorals were very common and pretty easy, and there were two technicals, Both were about a medium level leet code question
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Question 1
Name one time were you’ve had to take initiative to solve a problem in the work place
