I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Oct 2014
Interview
I got an internal job referral from a friend. Then the HR contacted me very soon and arranged for a telephone interview one week later. The interviewer was quite friendly and talked a lot about his past and current working experiences. I was asked to go for an onsite interview, but later it was cancelled.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
No very unexpected questions. The interviewer asked me the most difficult thing I had experienced in the past 5 years.
I was asked to solve two programming questions using collabedit. One is to merge two sorted linked list and the other is to set matrix to zero. You can find both of the questions on leetcode.
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