First Stage in the interview process: Phone Interview (1hr) (2 coding questions) - typical questions that are asked in a 2nd-year Computer Science exam (Level Leetcode medium) Onsite Interviews (Virtual) (Typical FAANG interview): 1) Behavioral Interview with Senior Development Manager 2) Behavioral Interview with Senior Program Manager Technical Interviews: (3 and 4) Coding Assessments - Data structures/Algorithms/Optimization (Level Leetcode Hard) 5) Design a System at a High Level (And then dig deeper) *All interviews focus on Amazon Leadership principles The onsite interviewers definitely used a crappy method to evaluate a candidate. I've been in the Software Industry for over 3 years now, and I have never seen or been asked to answer such irrelevant bs questions before. I felt that I was well prepared for this interview. I answered many Leetcode questions, analyzed Grokking the System Design Interview and Cracking the coding Interview, etc. The technical interviewers spent at least 30 minutes focusing on Leadership Principle questions. Which meant that I had only 30 minutes remaining to answer the difficult algorithm/problem-solving questions. The senior Development Manager was unable to answer some of the questions that I had asked him. The last interviewer (SDE) did seem pretty stuck up. He stated that the more senior developers within his team/unit lack many technical skills.

Surprisingly easy — I expected tougher questions, but the coding round felt more like a warm-up. The main challenge was a DSA problem about counting islands in a 2D grid, which led to a discussion on DFS versus BFS and handling large grids. Funny enough, I had revisited that exact type of question while prepping on PracHub, which made me feel more confident. The interview wrapped up with a behavioral round, and I accepted an offer, but ultimately decided to decline it for another opportunity. Overall, it was a smooth experience.