Amazon

Size:

1500000+ employees

Founded:

1994

Website:

https://www.amazon.com

About:

Amazon is a multinational technology and e-commerce company founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994. Its core businesses span online retail (Amazon.com), cloud computing (Amazon Web Services), digital streaming (Prime Video), and consumer devices (Kindle, Echo, Fire TV). Amazon is the world's largest e-commerce retailer and AWS is the leading cloud infrastructure provider. The company is also a major force in logistics, advertising, and generative AI.

Amazon Interview Questions

Recently asked in real interviews

Questions

181

tracked from real interviews

Difficulty

23 Easy 141 Med 17 Hard

Rounds

5–6

OA + loop + Bar Raiser

Interview Process

Recruiter Screen

Background, motivation, early LP probe · ~30 min

phone

Online Assessment (L5 and below)

HackerRank: 2 coding problems + work simulation · ~90 min

Technical Phone Screen

1–2 coding problems + LP-flavored behavioral · 60 min

coding

Onsite Loop (×4)

2 coding, 1 system/low-level design, 1 LP-heavy behavioral · 55 min each

technical

Bar Raiser (within the loop)

External senior interviewer with veto power — pure LP & bar check · 55 min

behavioral

Amazon weaves Leadership Principles into every round — even coding rounds include LP probes. The Bar Raiser is from outside your target team and can veto an offer regardless of how the rest of the loop goes.

Topics Covered

Leadership Principles STAR Behavioral Arrays & Hashing Strings Trees Graphs / BFS / DFS Dynamic Programming Two Pointers Sliding Window Heaps Greedy Intervals System Design Low-Level Design (OOD) Backtracking

Recently Asked Questions

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Design a rate limiter.

system-design Medium

Move all zeros to the end of an array.

algorithmscoding Easy

Design Amazon Prime video.

system-design Medium

Given an array, find the two sum.

algorithmscoding Easy

Tell me about a time when you went above and beyond for a customer.

behavioral Medium