Amazon Interview Experiences

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  Five Virtual Onsite Rounds, Mostly Behavioral, End in an L4 OfferAmazon · Applied Scientist · New Grad · Onsite · Aug 2025

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  Background: I'm a non-CS PhD with a CS master's. Earlier this year, after there was a lot of negative news about my advisor, I switched advisors, gave up on academia, and started interviewing. Prep: since I had no internship experience and I'm not a CS PhD, my rule for myself was that I had to land an offer within at most two interviews, so I probably prepared more than I actually needed to. Roug…

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  Three Onsite Rounds of BQ, Coding, and OODAmazon · Software Engineer · Onsite · Aug 2025

  Round 1: Asked 6 behavioral questions, covering a pretty wide range. The ones I remember are: How to handle a tight deadline Proactively helping others (help others) Digging into a problem's root cause (deep dive) How to handle disagreeing with a colleague (conflict with colleague) Doing something outside your scope (outside your scope) How to respond to negative/harsh feedback Round 2: Two codin…

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  Three Onsite Rounds With a Bar Raiser and Nonstop BQ ChallengesAmazon · Software Engineer · Onsite · Aug 2025

  Round 1 (possibly a bar raiser): The interviewer gave me 2 BQs and 2 coding questions. BQ1: tell me about your project... follow up... BQ2: don't remember. Coding1: given an int array where only one number appears an odd number of times, find and return that number. I used a hash table -> follow-up: how do you optimize the space complexity to O(1)? I got stuck on this one for a while, we went bac…

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  Bar Raiser Behavioral Marathon, a Parking Lot OOD, and Route-Planning CodingAmazon · Software Engineer · Onsite · Jul 2025

  Round 1: it went straight into bar raiser mode, five BQs back to back for the whole round, totally overwhelmed me. The ones I roughly remember: most interesting/proud project, dealing with ambiguity, conflict/different opinions, how to make your work more efficient (something like that? I used "prioritize things"), and the most challenging thing you've dealt with. Tons of follow-ups, and the inte…

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  Untimed OA Then an HM Phone Screen on Delivery-Driver MetricsAmazon · Product Manager · Technical Screen · May 2024

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  Sharing my hiring-manager phone screen. I mass-applied to non-tech positions at Amazon, and the recruiter emailed pretty quickly to schedule an OA. After passing the OA, there was a 45-60 minute phone screen with the HM. The OA was a work simulation and work style assessment — there were videos and emails simulating a typical work environment, and it wasn't timed! So just relax and take your time…

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  Five Rounds, All Behavioral QuestionsAmazon · Product Manager · Onsite · Jan 2024

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  After one round with the hiring manager, I got the result the next business day: move forward to the virtual onsite. There was almost a month gap after that, so I had plenty of time to prepare. I split the 5 rounds across two days, and it was pure behavioral questions the whole way through. I remembered roughly some of the questions, so sharing them here. The first one was with the hiring manager…