Stage 1: Call with Recruiter (one of the best, and probably the only good part in the whole process)

Stage 2: Technical OA Medium/easy LeetCode questions on linked list and string array manipulation.

Stage 3: Virtual Onsite (4 rounds)

• One interviewer who was not in the interviewing team (Amazon LP and one easy sorting question).
• System Design on Messenger (interviewer checked out after screen share did not work in Amazon Chime. I used a notepad and pen. Later found out the browser needed to allow screen recording, which was not allowed by default on my new system).
• Behavioral round with manager on Amazon LP questions and one long question with a simple OOP solution. The interviewer just copy-pasted it and told me to read and solve it when only 15 minutes were left.
• One medium LeetCode question (I used backtracking; the interviewer was not impressed because I did not use Trie).

Two of the four interviewers were among the worst I have ever experienced. One was disrespectful, saying "nice story" to my project experience, about which I was passionate and had put a lot of hard work. The other had terrible audibility due to an accent like a bullet train and low mic quality; I had to ask several times to repeat. They were also dismissive of all the working solutions I provided (DFS, BFS, backtracking).

I'm giving this a neutral experience still because it seems to be team-specific behavior, and I think I could have still done better. Use the interview window to make sure you don't land in a toxic team.

The usual LP questions.

Tell me a complex problem you solved with a simple solution.